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Trap.(Poem)(Brief Article)

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| September 01, 2002 | Lansdown, Andrew | COPYRIGHT 2002 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

 
TRAP 
 
   Winnie-the-Pooh gave him the idea 
   for a pit trap (not for Heffalumps but) 
   for rabbits. I suggested a box trap 
   for bandicoots. His mother thought up 
   a net trap for rock crabs. To no avail. 
 
   So his yearning to Trap Something grew 
   all holiday long. Then a fairy wren 
   blundered through the kitchen door, 
   turning the cottage into a house trap 
   for birds. The little wren. It had 
 
   no chance before his covetous hands, 
   his adoring eyes. Yielding to his 
   pleadings, I let him keep it overnight. 
   When I released it this morning, it 
   merely hunched on the ground beneath 
 
   a woolly bush, its ...

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