Pigs Might Fly

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ISBN: 9781857548198 | 1857548191
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 4/28/2006

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These masterful, direct, and humorous poemsthe latest works of John Heath-Stubbscontinue to convey the poet's wry and remarkable take on the sights, sounds, cycles, evolution, and freshness of the natural world. This collection mixes a measure of nostalgia with doses of lightheartedness and elegiac beauty.

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The day that pigs learned to fly	p. 7
Cat and dog	p. 8
A mnemonic	p. 9
Penge - moral standards vindicated	p. 9
The tadpoles	p. 10
Poem intended to be inscribed on a manhole cover in a London pavement	p. 11
Pollen	p. 12
Cephalopods	p. 13
Fitzroy	p. 14
Madame Butterfly	p. 15
The tuatera speaks	p. 16
Gadarenes	p. 17
Migrants	p. 18
Cat talk	p. 19
The frog and the scorpion	p. 20
Homage to Edgar Rice Burroughs	p. 21
Brock	p. 23
An Oxford tortoise	p. 24
The Duckatrice of Netley Abbey	p. 25
I am a Roman	p. 27
Careme and the Marquis de Cussy	p. 28
Chelone	p. 29
The clock stopped	p. 31
Mushroom universities	p. 32
Omar Khayyam	p. 33
The world's my oyster	p. 34
The pompadour chatterer	p. 35
An ibis at Blackpool	p. 36
A tufted duck	p. 37
The nightingale's ode to John Keats	p. 38
On Christmas Day	p. 39
Poem for Easter	p. 40
St. Godric of Finchale (1069-1170)	p. 41
A bit of a tall order	p. 42
Pandora's box	p. 43
Devizes	p. 44
In the porcelain factory	p. 45
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