Not the usual pet, nor the usual portrait, Bill; but it sees her…
Doug
On Sep 15, 2015, at 3:38 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Lizard
>
> Curled up before the fire,
> Lizard mouthed pistachios,
> sending shells skidding
> across the cottage floor,
>
> slurped up curries,
> even ripe tomatoes,
> withdrawing her tongue
> and upturning brown eyes
>
> when she finished. Named
> after flame-haired Bombers
> goal sneak Alan Ezard,
> Red Heeler Lizard sadly
>
> no match for a real reptile.
> Casualty of a King Brown,
> she lies uncurled beneath
> a peach tree in Markwood.
>
> bw
Douglas Barbour
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Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
Done in by creation itself.
I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
Robert Kroetsch.
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