Natural History
Little enough to walk straight under the turnstile
and sashay gleefully out of sight, her yellow coat
flashing through pushchairs and arches, winking goodbye
to the throng while I pocket my change, call out,
she does not stop to look at a thing
until we reach the piped cicada and birdsong paradise
of polystyrene crag and spot-lit vegetation
where lizard-hipped dinosaurs
guzzle their catch, dip animated heads to feed in turn
from its fat throat, slashed flank and belly.
I want to go, she wants to stay, explains
those little ones there are kissing their mummy.
and sashay gleefully out of sight, her yellow coat
flashing through pushchairs and arches, winking goodbye
to the throng while I pocket my change, call out,
she does not stop to look at a thing
until we reach the piped cicada and birdsong paradise
of polystyrene crag and spot-lit vegetation
where lizard-hipped dinosaurs
guzzle their catch, dip animated heads to feed in turn
from its fat throat, slashed flank and belly.
I want to go, she wants to stay, explains
those little ones there are kissing their mummy.
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