I think I only see a smudge
Or aliens guzzling down fudge,
Seahorses kissing sea urchins
or seaweed undersea lurking,
Eiffel Tower by Picasso,
An odd man with green mustachios,
Strange one-clawed acrobatic crabs
With ostentatious derby hats,
What malady’s inflicting me?
Imagination’s all I see.
© Susan Joy Clark 2021
This is for dVerse’s Monday quadrille challenge. By their definition, a quadrille is a poem with exactly 44 words. Our poems had to include the word “smudge.”