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Crocodile Ankles [1]

Poetry [2]
5.2.17

While a crocodile’s ankles might be something you’ve never thought much about, a recent discovery of fossils shows that an early relative of dinosaurs had “crocodylian-like ankle morphology”—or crocodile ankles—an important factor in placing the carnivore within the evolutionary timeline. Write a poem inspired by an unusual phrase or terminology [3] for an animal’s (or human’s) physicality, such as purlicue, perhaps finding humor or playfulness in its sound, sense, and associated imagery.


Source URL:https://www.pw.org/content/crocodile_ankles

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/content/crocodile_ankles [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/poetry [3] http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2015/07/10-words-for-body-parts-that-you-probably-didnt-know/