#499 - two in the zoo

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two in the zoo

 

yellow spotted bell frog

 

all haunch

an unseen millimetering

and muscular, bulge of eye

 

a seeing rhythm, the unsplash

 

heart through breath

through shining skin

 

the yellow spotted frog’s

about to …

 

colours come out if you watch 

Ricky, the Bellinger River Turtle

 

webbed, pale and pawing the deep

 

appendage out of shield

(all panoply if need be)

wrinkled till the murk-worth floor

feeds on the bottom things invisible

 

time has been in this shell

 

there can’t be a river as old as this

 

Marcel Marceau of the turtle world

pretending a wall of glass 

4 o’clock ferry 

 

creatures return to the zoo

still in their city disguises

have had a good bask

now it’s feed and snooze

 

creatures have eaten their own weight in day

now they are yawning

on the way home

soon tell around the well

 

seal alongside, crocs, pigeons flock

sea horses, so many

 

how fresh air was

how harbour rust

and morning misted

 

meerkats remained to entertain

 

but these were the ones

too shy to

these the non-performers

ark disgorge of absent Noah

 

who knew the city for its fact

 

spoken to all things equal

in itself a farce

to which creatures are wise

and choke the plastic down

 

you cannot see where

how bung the creatures are

 

now weary of hoof the humans trundle

off to troughs of their own

back to screen

never suspecting a thing

 

all vanish into a book