Yesterday was WORLD ANIMAL DAY, and the cruelty goes on, along with disappearances of whole species, and the long shadows reach even into my little book of animal poems. They have to.
In Squeak! Squawk! Roar! the elephant guards his sought-after tusks, the song thrush loses her nesting tree, the jungle animals watch their forest shrink, the turtle, far out at sea, is entangled in plastic, the butterflies are ‘butterfew’, the battery hen is grumpy, the caged rhinoceros is ‘crosseros’, and the hedgehog risks all for a small green space to feed and rest.
Gently, gently, we have to reveal these truths to upcoming generations.
Kate Williams 
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