Black and Red All Over
...She’d enunciate with fingers.
Deft language in deafness lingers
on blackboard.
Darkening reflection of smoke,
Wing’d knowledge of their names, baroque.
Bright blackbirds
smack against the S...
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Categories:
bantams, bird, school,
Form: Verse
Hopkins Snakes
...Hopkins snakes
Old Hopkins had a rope ladder,
To keep snakes out of the house,
Snake killing sticks under the rain water tank,
In the shower, where a snake ate the mouse,
The fowls all lived...
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Categories:
bantams, adventure,
Form: Ballad
My Bantams
...Here they come squeaking away
Waiting for their feed today
Feathered an busy
Scurrying in a tizzy
Fighting for a crumb
People think they’re dumb
But they know when to come in from danger
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Categories:
bantams, animals, nature, pets,
Form: Rhyme