Ode to a Would-Be Swimmin’ Skink
written by: Eric Robert Nolan
@ericrnolan1
Hello to you, o’ silver skink!
You’re after my milkshake, I think —
perhaps to make a swimming pool
this hot Virginia afternoon.
But please don’t cool off in my drink,
for after your bronze head will sink,
I’ll accidentally sip your scales
or wiggling iridescent tail.
Please do me this one small favor —
spare me knowledge of your flavor
gained by a spaghetti-slurp
and gained again by little burp.
Eric Robert Nolan’s writing has been featured throughout over 50 print and online publications in the United States, Canada, Britain, Ireland, Germany, Romania, Turkey, India and Australia. His work was also selected for 13 anthologies, two chapbooks and six mini-books between 2013 and 2021. He is a past editor for The Bees Are Dead, and was a nominee for the Sundress Publications 2018 Best of the Net Anthology.
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