All Creatures Great and Small
Edinburgh,
where it all began for Darwin.
Tonight,
a queue wraps itself
around the Old Town streets
like a boa constrictor.
People are talking
like zoologists,
about tapirs,
sloths, howler monkeys
and feral cat exhibits.
The crowd creeps
into the Assembly Rooms,
cymbals crash with
a note or two of
Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide.
Camille hops around
like a top-heavy kangaroo,
slips into Dorothy’s shoes.
Whalebone straitjacket,
leopard-skin knickers −
all over in a flash.
Beams creak under
the weight of architecture
and morality.
We are evolving.
Officially,
the Kirk would
not have approved.
* * *
Steven Porter was born in Inverness in 1969 and
lives in Spain. He has published 5 books with his output including fiction,
short stories, memoir, travelogues, reportage and sports writing. His second
collection of poetry – 16 Poem(a)s –
is a bilingual English/Galician edition, published on Merseyside by Knives,
Forks and Spoons Press. The author’s blog can be found at http://stevenjporter.wordpress.com
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