The Notebook

by Christian Ward

A community of faunalives in a tattered black notebookwrinkled as an ancient oak:A honeydew-green mothcurved like an arrowhead. Pale white butterflies bringing winter with them. Pink Amazonian dolphins who transform into people at midnight. Hummingbirds wearing every colour of the spectrum. Various badgers, bats, bears, fish, foxes... I feed them marginalia, scrapsand doodles. Sometimes, I seethem prying it open and my bedroom erupts into a rave of wonders, with even the moon peering into join in this temporary festival.

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