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Napowrimo #2: Aeolian Squid

There really is a distinct shortage of good rhymes in English.

Aeolian Squid

Observant sailors sometimes say
that over Arctic seas
they see small blobs of silver-grey
floating on the breeze.

With bodies full of helium,
they rise above the spray,
and trail ten dangling tentacles
in search of tiny prey.

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Napowrimo #1: spider

As a dog returneth to his vomit:

You sometimes find, on Merseyside,
a tiny spider sitting
upon a web of red and white.
It makes it out of knitting.

So if you hear, around the house,
faint and highly pitched,
a burst of irritated Scouse:
a spider’s dropped a stitch.