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a small tortoise fights a lion
a one-eyed squid tumbles
clumsily from a ladle
three bats rise from a bush
a starfish or it could be a crab
becomes an elegant seahorse
an errant piece of jigsaw, strange
a lizard becomes a key and is
swallowed by a mole
a glider stiffly breaks the scene
as a gull with rigor-mortised wings
the tortoise is back again
fatter this time around
pushes a magnifying glass
with its nose
an elephant stumbles backwards
a whale masquerades preposterously
as Madagascar
a wide field of rain flattened corn
straightens to feathered plumes
a gigantic squirrel with two tails
is spatchcocked messily
and so the never-ending gallery
in the sky rolls on by
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© Graham R Sherwood 05/23
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