Raspberries. Pineapples. Tropical Fruit. An alligator, mosquito and penguin walk into a bar….
I see a large tropical fruit hat on a beautiful Caribbean dancer. I see an alligator leaping straight out of silty water with a raspberry bellybutton. I am imagining a fruit cocktail, a Hawaiian pizza, a cornucopia. This is not near here. This is someplace on Instagram reels or TikTok. This place is “exotic” – foreign to me and my lived experience.
I fed raw chicken to Cayman’s once. In Costa Rica. They are “small” alligators.
I wonder if sturgeons are the pacifist crocodile… or maybe that’s manatees? What if each relation to another mammal is like all of the parts of us? Alligator is fierce and cranky. Manatee is a bit of a ‘dodo’ but kind and care-free. The sturgeon would say so much if it could… like “stop picking me up for your dumb photos”, and “I’m so unimpressed with humans”. Maybe sturgeons have ESP with other water creatures – so they can make requests to frogs, snakes, whales and barracudas. The sturgeon “ESP’s” to the jellyfish to sting that motherfucker over there. He’s ‘caught-and-released’ me on four separate occasions. Just give him a good sting on his foot – close to where he finds me. That should teach him.
where rivers are born 