Marmoset Revisits the Seaside

    On Saturday past I recalled the joy of watching a Marmoset frolicing about the foliage at  a jungle river, complete with manatee so graceful in the water  beneath a little bridge in a special animal house at the zoo in Pittsburgh, PA.  Words came bouncing out and I began to write a poem.  They blending into memory of a work by Dorian McGowan of Edward Lear's poem (see below).

It resulted in a card including the poem I wrote, with a marmoset, flashing paint brushes for Dorian who is recovering from a broken hip, a nasty trick of hidden ice of that deceptive season of Winter).  The Poem follows in a a more readable form.  Do know that as in all fantasy, you can be me,  a monkey, a tree, where today is tomorrow & tomorrow is yesterday . . .

A diddly poem for the artist owl, a graceful angel and a sacred yellow cat

O dear dear cuddly marmoset

So fun to watch your merman dance

Tumbling rumbling in the sea

Holding, boiling, roiling laughter back

to keep the fish at bay

Spitting suds and bubbles

Jumping upon the cockleshells

Angry barnacles breathed back

Sticking out their feathery tongues

Begging, yelling with watery spleen

“N’er err to dare come back!”

seething seashell venom

in twisted greenly crackly wrack

They sailed off in briny oyster shell

With oar of runcible spoon

An owl and cat in primate gowns

Pretending dreams of silvery moons

Laughing gulls and crooning loons

A day, a night a wild cold tale

A chocolate bar of joy to share

in champagne bath of glee

Invincible we think all hope

Forever and a day

For Dorian, © j.m.frase-white 5/2019

A Rift on Edward's Lear's the Owl & the Pussycat

by Dorian McGowan

from the exhibit Poetry Made Visible,  which I curated, Feb-March 2016

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