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The snail

Unsuckered.

Richard Partridge

Oct 22, 2022

A snail fell onto a car windscreen.
From where, it was hard to say.
Dropped from the beak of a bird,
perhaps, or fallen from a tree,
stretching too far
to find a tasty green leaf.
Unsuckered.