TURTLE WHISPERER
Your brother lied,
told you the 60’s
and peace would last
forever. But you
enlisted your snapping
jaws, plated shell,
trunk-like legs,
armored tail,
sharpened stink eye.
And now you hold post
outside a white, wooden
house too narrow to enter.
--Sukany 17 June 2013
Your brother lied,
told you the 60’s
and peace would last
forever. But you
enlisted your snapping
jaws, plated shell,
trunk-like legs,
armored tail,
sharpened stink eye.
And now you hold post
outside a white, wooden
house too narrow to enter.
--Sukany 17 June 2013