Best River Otter Poems

Butti the tortoise from the zoo has flown the coop

   Your brother Tutti misses you, you little poop

      On you there is a large bounty

         If found in El Paso...

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Wading in a branch
trickling slowly along to the ocean.
Smell of decaying leaves and honeysuckle in the air.
Tadpoles, crawfish swimming by toes in Swift creek.

River otter curiously watching
the boys playing, splashing in the water
on a hot August day.

Bream jumping, splashing 
Trying to remove the land creatures...

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sapphire fresh water 
river otter, fish, and plants
nature's ode printing...

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This cyclic-round-wheel-gyre-chakra bound
business of humanness -
such an unnecessary habit.

I have stuffed my mind,
I have put on brown leather shoes,
and nothing else in the world
puts on a brown leather shoe more willingly
than an over-stuffed mind.

Later I might identify as a sleek black cat
and though I might...

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   The silent woman watches,
   Shifting in the cold.
   Holding coffee in hand,
   Watching over the land.

   Swiftly through the falling leaves,
   Laying in the water.
   Boats carving gashes,
  ...

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Sometimes I wonder what it’d be like to be a bird…
to sing a morning song 
to spread my wings and fly
high above the treetops…
to soar across the sky.

Sometimes I wonder what it’d be like to be a river otter
to swim and dive and spin all...

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