ANIMALS - a daily series of poems with illustrations by @bennettitalia
POLAR BEAR
A polar bear should be obvious
but it’s as powerfully inconspicuous
as any glass object:
a mountain among mountains
a shot glass on a shelf
a skyscraper
in a sea of skyscrapers.
In its element
it flourishes invisibly.
Surrounded by snow and ice
its white body seems to weigh everything
and nothing.
The inside of it is hot and wet.
On the outside…
even the water is dry.
It dives
or reaches
down
into cold, wet places
to get its food.
Its thick, sleek layers
of fat
and skin
and fur
define a boundary
between the countries of cold
and of hot
of nearly lifeless
and of brimming over with life.
©2018 Bennett Italia
These poems are adapted from an art book I made awhile back. Check out the rest of the series so far, if you like:
©2018 Bennett Italia
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Thank you! Glad you like it :)
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