A Juicy Tangerine Crescent Bursts

the intangible nectar of fondness . . .

Image by Peter Schmidt from Pixabay

Paltry Pattycake, a passable possum
snatched by nonchalant bursts of mirth
emerges from an undergrowth burrow
to woo her Chintzy Chelsea bugaboo.

Conversely, Chintzy slithers and melts
into pond ripples and bashful crawdads
so as to avoid…