The Shelled Life

Poems inspired by turtles and tortoises

Friday, August 24, 2012

21 - strange bedfellows





a thing
of different
flesh

a shell
to read the runes
of the back
foot gripping
rock weight pulling
across a landscape
of strange and peachy skin

not one of you
hold close
it is
so very warm here
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