by RazzRajen
I like this poem but "who gobbled like a turkey" suddenly took away the dank undergrowth feel of the poem.
Perhaps you could change the gerunds "flapping" and "cackling" to flap and cackle.
You use interesting words as usual,
but I too find the contrasts of your images rather disconcerting and contradictory.
You want the undergrowth "dank" (with "corrugated walkways"),
but make it "high and dry".
I pity the elvers who live underwater and the slugs who just squoosh and don't cackle.
And I just don't know what "lissom depths" are.
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