Friday, July 22, 2005

Friday Creature

One more photo from Italy. This is a turtle that was living in a pond at Hadrian's Villa outside of Rome.

Have a great weekend, folks. I wish I could say more, but I'm in a rush -- I'm getting ready to pop out of town real quick... I'll be back soon! (Say hi to the critters on the ark for me.)

1 comment:

jbailes said...

Thanks, Alice. Here's an excerpt of a poem I wrote years ago, called "Snapping Turtle":



Care and war had

been handed down to us, our fingers shaped,

after countless generations, to bad

or good. And so we believed it good escape

for this terrapin to receive a hand

from us, acceleration of progress.

Like wings, we lifted the dark thing off land

and carried the procrastinator west

to water.