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.
three hawks fly, but look like one hawk in three time slices
in clear water, a newt, darting or drifting, seems to be flying
two shucked nuts sit on a stone pillar -- no squirrel in sight
snail on a stone wall remains still for hours on end; on my next pass, gone
lost in ocean awe, still enough that fish gather in one's shadow
the high tree hawk scans for prey from lofty heights; the rat scurries - unaware of far-flung foes, but side to wall all the same
hanging off a ledge, parakeets fall into flight to their next perch
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