Bestiary by Elise Paschen
Author:Elise Paschen [Paschen, Elise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781597093729
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Steering children across
the Millennium lawn, we hear drumsâ
rumble, the sirensâ caterwauling
across Columbus, and we spy
remains of the parade: a float
decked with teenage girls, dressed in gowns.
Our three explorers, step in time,
rat-a-tat march, their first Columbus
Day parade.
The year 1493
when Christopher Columbus sighted
three mermaids rising out of ocean,
beyond the coast of Hispaniola.
He noted the discovery
of manatees, West Indian,
from the species Sirenius,
lumbering mammals sailors mistook
for sirens waving.
We pilot our crew
away from the parade, seek higher
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