Poor Mojo's Classic Poetry: Laurel_Sparks "Animal Crackers"

Poor Mojo's Almanac(k) Classics (2000-2011)

Poetry #253
(published November 17, 2005)

Animal Crackers

by Laurel Sparks

The child bites—
Camel without a hump;
Trunkless elephant,
Dog
With no tail.

Handicapped creatures
Emerge from hibernation,
Only to be amputated
In the first sunlight
Out of darkness.

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