Mongooses or Mongeese?
My Jamaican friend says,
"It's GEESE, mahn!"
But I can't tell whether that's
a Mon-guess [or a guess, mahn!]
I'd prefer a non-guess
on the mongoose's gees-i-ness,
lest I develop lexical queasiness.
It seems like it should be mongeese,
because "mongoose" is very
much like "goose."
[As my Jamaican friend would say,
"It's jus wit the 'Mon,' mahn!"]
On the other hand, a mongoose
don't look like no goose I've
ever seen.
two young gazelles lock horns and head-wrestle, then quit and move on.
dusk has come. bats head out to hunt. black against dark sky.
foraging geese, with heads down, honk to prevent collision.
a skipper sits on a bent grass blade; then leaves. the blade stays bent.
The reptile known as the Five-Lined Skink is silent, but not as covert as you'd think. From the front end it blends, but its bright blue back end catches the eye no matter how slowly it slinks.
"the fish's world is always in drift," thinks I, from the bank.
along the seashore, everything is in motion, but the crow's eye.
The herd is on the march.
They lumber with slow
determination.
The young achieve
playful swagger,
but aren't allowed
too wide of the line.
I wonder whether they're
going someplace good?
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