Red rover red rover:
Strange cold people
Dream of dwelling
Among crustaceans
(Code coming in polar)
Crabby submarine signalers
Take watery virtue vacations
In undersea labyrinths…
(Crossed stations?)

So let us reference birdsong,
Just because it’s wrong
And out of place
To chirp and twitter inane verse
And flitter from reef to tree to mountain
Or fly— SMACK!
Into a window (even worse)
Mistaking transparency for space.

Birdsong bubbles from the depths.
The savage tribes of my city:
Divergent creatures of the reef . . .
Mixed metaphors of savannah
And avian ocean.

Sub-adult male primates
Bare fangs to fauna;
Displaying plumage
(marijuana)
In whirlpools, waterspouts and gangs bangs  Gong  bongs 
Hippos blast reefer smoke
Out of fat wide nostrils
(Cuz they roll like that, blubber)

The flora: plastic, smoke and roots
Vape-trees offer their fruits.
Sharks lurk in darkness
Waiting to pounce on wildebeests
Culrling green tendrils of coral
In the sun beside the regal baobabs.

Darwinian futility withers
In protoplasmic seas of youth:
Your own untruth.

Natural phenomena so over.
Just print it out, download it,
Rover.

PROMPT #14:

try writing a poem that describes a place,
particularly in terms of the animals, plants or other natural phenomena there.
Sink into the sound of your location, and use a conversational tone.
Incorporate slant rhymes into your poem.
And for an extra challenge –
don’t reference birds
or birdsong!