Tricyclist and a Turtle.(Poem)

From: Poetry  |  Date: 8/1/2004  |  Author: Mc Quade, Molly

 
TRICYCLIST AND A TURTLE 
 
   Minnesota 
   snapping turtles 
   clutched by little cities 
 
   are wet busts of moonstone 
   wreathed in scum, 
   the gray self sugared, 
 
   half a lot 
   of granite 
   phlegm stopped 
 
   upon a chaise longue, 
   that incoming 
   pod of him 
 
   dunked, 
   thorny hooves aswim. 
   Lichen licked him, 
 
   then he quivered 
   in the stem, 
   and ...

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