#1431 - three creatures

1431

4.335

2.xii.23

the lizard of the way

Gore Cove Track Series

 

all tongue out to catch

all tail

all taut

attention

 

all claws

to sandstone

scratch

to grip

 

an eye

as big

as all the day

 

climbing

to be still

 

 

 

koala sleep

 

to live in a tree

and eat the leaves

and swing towards

another trunk

 

and keep a grip

 

go up

come down

 

ears fluffed out

 

all-four it

 

limb along

bend

find foliage

 

hide in a meal

 

little traipse and shake   

and just the same

when all awake

 

as far as in the dream

 

 

 

 

 

 

the antiquity of turtles

river cooter

 

grim by countenance

 

RUOK?

a clock stops

 

blink if you’re with us still

 

look up

look anywhere around

 

a flutter of front flipper

come courting

 

then fins high

sleep as if mid-aspic

 

time stops in them

 

have run to air

and shone

 

as if on marks, set

bask

 

they slow us down to see