77000-Year-Old Bedding Found
[Prof. Christopher Miller sampling sediments. (Credit: Prof. Lyn Wadley, Science Daily)]
This is where they
Laid their heads.
They fell asleep.
We found their beds.
Between lines three
And four is a space,
Punctuation indicating
A pause of
Seventy-seven thousand
Years --amnestic mornings,
Nestled in settled stone
Waking alone, eager,
In love or sad, in
Their beds where they
Dreamed, worried,
Trysted, cried, laughed,
Whispered, petrified.
Here on prehistoric
Beds, this is where
They laid their heads.
