The Dictionary Walrus
THE DICTIONARY ZOO
BY ROBERT WALLACE
Looking like 1905,
though considerably older,
obviously longing to wive
and sport where the air is apt to be colder
though considerably older,
obviously longing to wive
and sport where the air is apt to be colder
than here, the walrus sits
between Walpurgis Night and waltz,
nicely suspended between the flesh’s and the spirit’s
comfortable faults,
between Walpurgis Night and waltz,
nicely suspended between the flesh’s and the spirit’s
comfortable faults,
but ignoring both, looking straight ahead,
a dreamy lounger on the Arctic sun,
fin-feet spread,
exile from the blizzard coasts where ice floes run;
a dreamy lounger on the Arctic sun,
fin-feet spread,
exile from the blizzard coasts where ice floes run;
(1 /120) natural size,
the leathery whale-horse (from the Dutch),
by the look in his heavy-lidded eyes,
doesn’t like it much.
the leathery whale-horse (from the Dutch),
by the look in his heavy-lidded eyes,
doesn’t like it much.