Inspiration point (IP)
Today is the 100th birthday of naturalist Sir David Attenborough, himself a wonder of nature and one of our very, very few genuine national treasures. So this week, please write about an animal (or many animals, if you prefer!) Animals you love, or hate, or that give you the horrors, or that you once fleetingly glimpsed in passing. I look forward to seeing the results!
Inspiration point
cotyledons
winter fingered earth safed. Now joined as prayer clasped hands they come up from darkness forgotten hopes open for the sun. Fragile, green growing...
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Concealing
(of presents, and human and computer memory vaults)
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Living with …
We get armour-plated armadillos, miniature; at night-time slugs find squeeze-through aperture – stretching, slithering with slimy, shiny trails – ugh...
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Living as an animal
I make a silly noise Like the laughter of a child With dignity and poise I revert to being wild We are all just animals And filthy, savage cannibals...
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Uninvited Guests
Foxes and other animals.
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