Thursday 11 December 2008

The Sleeping Mangle



The Sleeping Mangle

The scent of penguin fills the air
Amid the sea-squirt sheets she lies
The curious scrolls in her hair
The sticky globules in her eyes

How many a changing puffin flip
But if the ball-like nodules race
Her oblong fruit broods over it
The silver turnips of the days

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