When dinosaurs swished their huge tails <br />they made a louder boom <br />than, mournfully, the humming whales <br />beneath the ocean flume, <br />or fighters in the stratosphere <br />exceeding speed of sound <br />that splits the drums of every ear <br />of creatures on the ground. <br /> <br />Today you cannot hear the crack <br />of dinosaurs who’d whip <br />appendages that power pack, <br />and human tongue and lip <br />can’t emulate, because the climate <br />caused all of them to die, <br />though there are some presumptious primates <br />who give it their best try. <br /> <br />I wish I also had a tail <br />whose supersonic boom <br />could show the females what this male <br />has got, and tell them whom <br />I want to come to me to do <br />the things I need and more, <br />without the need to give the cue <br />humanely with a roar. <br /> <br />If the barrier of sound <br />were one that I could break, <br />I’d hightail, high above the ground, <br />and progress like a rake, <br />more than the dinosaurs audacious, <br />delighted to be linked <br />to creatures that are post-Cretaceous, <br />and not yet quite extinct. <br /> <br /> <br />Dr. Nathan P. Myhrvold of Microsoft Corporation is studying the way that Apatosaurus may have been able to create a supersonic boom when it cracked it tail like a whip. He calls his field cyber paleontology (John Noble Wilford, 'Did Dinosaurs Break the Sound Barrier? ' NYT,12/2/97) . <br /> <br />12/2/97,12/11/08<br /><br />gershon hepner<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/supersonic-boom/
