Nameless Beauty (Poem-A-Day 13)

For today’s prompt, write an animal poem. Pick a specific animal or write about your animal spirit. Maybe you’ll get tricky and write about mustangs (meaning the car) or jaguars (meaning the American football team). Maybe you’ll do an acrostic, or even go crazy and write a sestina (crickets).

Nameless Beauty

She was clinging
To my bare arm
Or maybe he
Let’s assume she

I felt her tickling
The hairs at my sleeve
Green as a young leaf
Slender as a twig
Six long legs
An exotic beauty

I dropped her off
At a convenient branch
No need to squish her or him
Just as I would prefer
Not to be squished
Should I ever find myself
Clinging to a whale
Or giant squid

It could happen

About Bartholomew Barker

Bartholomew Barker is an organizer of Living Poetry, a collection of poets in the Triangle region of North Carolina where he has hosted a monthly feedback workshop for more than decade. His first poetry collection, Wednesday Night Regular, written in and about strip clubs, was published in 2013. His second, Milkshakes and Chilidogs, a chapbook of food inspired poetry was served in 2017. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2021. Born and raised in Ohio, studied in Chicago, he worked in Connecticut for nearly twenty years before moving to Hillsborough where he lives and writes poetry.

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