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'The Dinosaur'

Who art thou

Oh tiny tender

Little bird

Of night

 

Equinox pearl

Didactic diamond

Spread fingers

Legs of a lizard

Pink pussy cat

 

Tell me

Did you begin

Beyond before

Mississippi mud?

 

Lark in night

Legs arching

Diving

White line between

Black and black

The Lion

Fierce he strikes

and down his gullet 

gobbles

the morsels of his regard

 

lazily he lies replete

the tawny mane shakes 

like the nod of Zeus

catlike comfort stretching claws

to mark the meaning 

behind the feast

 

my flattery is held between the massive paws

and my desire flutters in his grip

the little mouse nibbles at the net of love

so that the raging tyrant 

might remain unbound

Fly Away

I sit, smoking

 

A van blocks my view

But for the treetops

Black against the sky

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There at the top

The very tipmost top

Perch a multitude of tiny birds


 

Suddenly

They fly

Fly away

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(Those tiny birds)

Artemesia Art - Lucy Basner Limited 16021130

Of No Fixed Abode

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