salami, by Richy Straws

King Heron the Blue

has a head made for fishing frogs
and groaking in bogs
,
Is profitable like a seven headed hydra
wallowing in the muddy banks for the paisley shawl to deliver
a load of buttered bread around the bend.

Said well, said the Macbeth of a Swallow, who being wing-ed
was flung high in the wind on a breath of feathers, whilst everywhere there bustled about
a rush of dandylion fluff

My my my that turtle there in the water on a log in the water half
submarine sandich half willow of over the hill,
looks an overbit done, dry and old like a tortoise.  Maybe
Maybe its old Turtle Gudenov
A Turtle Tsar, how bizzare
one of those things, those rare occurrences of the natural world one knows about
but never really shows up at
the right time to tell at all