The giraffe house
It’s Saturday
and the temperature
has dropped with winds
blowing in from Siberia
Thick flakes of snow
are falling and a giraffe
is peering out of the house
its long-lashed eyelids
are blinking furiously
Africa seems so far away
and its warm winds
never reach us
I struggle to read
the giraffe’s mind
but I would suggest
that it is thinking :
this is not what I
signed up for,
at all !
John Lyons