A New Boreality

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NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 24:

Well, this was fun! And quick. This is the weekend of Contemporary Verse 2's 10-word/48-hour contest so I've been spending time on that, too. 

Today's prompt, which I helped along by drawing words from my Personal Universe Deck: "Find a factual article about an animal. A Wikipedia article or something from National Geographic would do nicely – just make sure it repeats the name of the animal a lot. Now, go back through the text and replace the name of the animal with something else – it could be something very abstract, like “sadness” or “my heart,” or something more concrete, like “the streetlight outside my window that won’t stop blinking.” You should wind up with some very funny and even touching combinations, which you can then rearrange and edit into a poem."

A New Boreality

 

Meringues are cold-adapted mammals. 

Taps require habitat with adequate edibles.

Ankles travel among different habitats with the seasons.

Slivers survive hot weather by accessing shade or cooling wind.

In hot weather, caramels are often found wading in ponds.

When heat-stressed, fear may fail to adequately forage in summer. 

Pulpmills may not calve without adequate summer weight gain.

In late-winter, salt prefers river valleys.

Guilt requires access to young forests.

Fire and logging promotes the growth of fodder for penises.

Glue selects habitat on the basis of trade-offs. 

There was some concern that melons would worsen the population decline of mirrors.

Tenderloins also require access to mineral licks. 

Saxophones prefer sub-alpine shrublands in early winter. 

Crocodiles avoid areas with little or no snow.

 

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