Enoch's Alphabet by Kimberly Stutevoss

Enoch’s Alphabet

Little Enoch learned from his lettered blocks

A is for armadillo and B is

For boomerang while C is for cotton

And D is for dancing all over and

E is for elephants that have huge trunks

And F is for frogs that croak in the night

He continues with G that stands for goat

And then moves to H for horses and hope

Iguana is for I and then he moves

To J the fastest letter as a jaguar

Then a hoppy one next with kangaroo’s

With K who carry their babies in their

Pouch with Lemurs for L following them

M is next with a silly pair of brown

Monkeys hanging from a tree then N with

A newt that can regrow his lost limbs

He then learns that O is for octopus

And that P is for porcupines with long

And sharp needles. Q stands for quail with their

Beautiful feathers and R for the red

Fox who competes with S, the sun bear as

Ruler of the forest and T for the

Tiger as ruler of the jungle and

As he gets closer to the end, U is

For the urchin under the sea and V

Is for vulture who flies above the blue

Sea while the whales for W swim deep below

With the x-ray tetra fish for X and

The Y for yak is far away on the

Plains near Z, for zebra eating green grass

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Enoch’s Blocks

BY OLIVIA CLARE

Little Enoch learned his colors from lettered blocks

(for A is the color of fleet,

B is the color of war and demolition,

C is the color of echo and blur,

&c.) and built

a bricolage:

So CAB was a whirring warbler.

BACH was the Spanish Armada crashing

                                      and crashing.

And ENOCH he couldn’t describe.

And when it reached the height of Enoch,

standing, he tore whole tongues

down to their colors.