SWAN TURTLE
I had the most precious eggs. I had the most precious eggs.
Beautiful Beautiful
Delicate Delicate
Precious Precious
Eggs. Eggs.
I loved to I loved to
sit on them
and gaze at them gaze at them
all day long all day long
in anticipation of a in anticipation of a
life changing moment life changing moment
where I would where I would
become a parent. become
full.
I had the most I had the most
precious eggs precious eggs
that I laid last week that I ate last week
but they are gone now. and they are gone now.
There was a swan on my parents' lake this summer, and she has been guarding her nest for weeks...nothing hatched.
ReplyDeleteThis is a poem for two voices, where the swam's perspective and the creature's perspective are both portrayed. I have chosen the creature to be a turtle...but who knows what it really was?!