Beastly Bestiary

Eels in high heels! Buttery manatees! </P><P>A squid who's a jerk! Hip bats! Flatulent dragons! </P><P>Wombless wombats! A lucky moonlit possum! A slow sex-starved he sloth! </P><P>Tricky ticks! Spiders with bad-girl allure and hourglass waists! A jazzy goose! The snuffling snowbeast! </P><P>And that's not all-Frustrated roosters gizzard nibbling lizards and sentimentowl owls! </P><P>These and many other curious creatures populate the perfectly peculiar poetic menagerie of A. Tad Strange. </P><P>In the great tradition of poets like Ogden Nash Marianne Moore and Edward Gorey Strange's strange 21st-century bestiary offers a roaring good time horselaughs aplenty and the inevitable purrs of cuddlesome readerly contentment. </P><P>With slitheringly seductive wordplay strange molts words into new meanings. He hatches high-soaringly delightful lines and swallows common-sense headfirst until only a smile remains and the piggy toes of reality are left wriggling. </P><P><I>Beastly Bestiary</I>-A tender treat of soft chewy poems guaranteed not to create intellectual indigestion or starve one's funny bone. </P>