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Printed from https://www.writing.com/main/books/entry_id/692383-Turtle
by Joy
Rated: 18+ · Book · Drama · #1253431
Poetry in April -- in celebration
#692383 added April 5, 2010 at 7:04pm
Restrictions: None
Turtle
Slow feet, bone house
heavy on her back,
surely not able to do aerobics;
yet, wants to cross another road
inch by inch.

When a truck crushes the bone,
maybe she’ll grow wings and fly
to watch from above
her mangled shape,
a roadkill still in her shell.

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