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Sugar Glider

by Chris Hubbard

The Sugar Glider is a gliding marsupial, native to Eastern Australia and Papua New Guinea.

 

Sugar Glider

The sweetest thing

I ever saw

Was a Sugar Glider

In a syrup-of-fig tree.

 

I looked at her,

She at me,

And we swooped down

To canefields of Eden.

 

Chris Hubbard

Perth

1995

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