Canvas Print - Tuatara reading
$50.00

The Flying Whale

Canvas Print - Tuatara reading

Canvas print by David Elliot

On wooden frame: 20cm x 30cm

Tuatara

The old survivor, tuatara,

reptilian great-grandfather,

observing with heavy-lidded eye

the still old centuries passing by,

 

slow little bloke in enamel coat

shedding his tail, croaking his croak,

his third eye watching world upon world,

an eternity to have, to hold.

 

By Lauris Edmond

From: Another 100 New Zealand Poems for Children

edited by Rachel McAlpine, illustrated by David Elliot