Desert Dweller

-thoughts on life, death and gardening.

Billy Squared



Gargantuan gargoyle reads William,
walking like an Egyptian
in Chinese mode,

pondering “what a piece of work”

while stepping cooly on burning coals
sorry,
¡ ate your breakfast plums.

© 2025 Bruno Talerico
Stafford challenge 155/365.
Apologies to William Shakespeare and William Carlos Williams.

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