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Robert Charboneau's avatar

Wonderful. It's in the company of "The Phoenix and the Turtle" or Eliot's "The Hippopotamus."

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Joffre Swait's avatar

Fantastic! 😄 I actually mentioned The Hippopotamus in the Substack chat when discussing this poem.

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Robert Charboneau's avatar

Haha, so I guess I wasn’t too off. If you include “The Hind and the Panther,” it’s gotta be its own genre. The Uncanny-Animal-Symbol-Religious poem.

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Cody Ilardo's avatar

I enjoyed this. I like the creative Saxony hyphenated compound words.

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