Animal Adjectives
the last lupine bays at moonset.
its basket of fullness at the doorstep.
eight phases in twenty-nine days,
vines give or take the dark shadowplay.
plasticine feline in the Valley of Sonoma,
her dainty leporine nibbles grow stronger,
scented of honey rose, and strawberry,
she shares the same bush that’s buried
under purple flits of trochiline feathers
where wolf walks his canine in nethers.
the loyal accipitrine squawks warning,
silences become more accurate calling…
one cervine jump makes him look asinine.
rewilding pieridine teases the effects of wings,
they run ferine from the elephantine
panther or polecat, what could it be?
patherine! musteline! head for the sea,
swerving dromedary humps serpentine!
it was just an acarine-covered microtine.
gazelline, throw gasoline on Noah’s abecedary.
break out another thousand on moonglow scenery,
waves in a vulpine forest, owly but mousy, quite owlful,
the soaring aquiline’s open-mouth glottal.
animal adjectives walk the dog.
homarine deadheads, nothing on the hook but a log.
she was such a gull, a real lady larine,
smashing crabs on cancrine rocks, obscene
as the porcine pavonine walked the plank.
in the soup reading this backward, he sank.
the pig and peacock served up the bank,
vermian wiggles, and apiarian waggles,
she really danced on ostracine pearls and haggles
with the hornet’s nest till bloody. on vespine coralline
came fry hanging on Daddy’s hippocampi towline.
singing like a songbird, killer bunnies binge drinking
on dead in the water stinkpot. here come coasties blinking.
bovine aquiline, what a pair hounding the hare.
language is a rabid octopus, a real bear.
flowers of columbine dove red-spotted Ursula,
birdlike, gone octopodal. love usurps her!
seastead dives underwater de-aging zebroid ursine.
subject to man in every state, harmonious apollonian
tames the leonine beast setting up a traveling feast.
picnics under the tongue metamorphosis, green ranine
hops cold-blooded to the man-eater, of the nature of
avine with the skeletal pattern of hominine
and the speed of an antipodean, return to your usonian.
