Drabble by Kevin Fagan for August 02, 2022

Good peace

Well, that’s going to take a while to unsee!

I see he’s still dressed for the tropics.

And porcupines!

Ralph is still convinced they’re going to Aruba.

I see skies of blue and clouds of white

The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night

And I think to myself, what a wonderful world!

In that case, an ape!

I would be wanting to see anything and everything that Mother Nature had to offer while on the cruise. Why did she even go on the cruise?

You know those photos of bears catching salmon swimming up the waterfalls? they are taken from a restaurant looking over the river and what they don’t show are the eagles scavenging what the bears don’t eat. And in good years the bears just take one or two bites above the backbone. The eagles fight and screech over the rest of the fish like gulls. You had to be there.

Blue sky in Alaska? Isn’t that rare there?

And he doesn’t need to see any old bats, monstrous shrews, or big mouth bass. He sees them all the time.