Nobody expects an axolotl
You’re swimming along, then suddenly, oh!
It pops like a genie from a bottle
But in the wild there are not a lotl
Unless you are in Lake Xochimilco*
Nobody expects an axolotl
Looks cute but it’s a tiny cannibl
All colours and shades, to baffle its foe
It pops like a genie from a bottle
This salamander is quite nocturnl
And its translucent skin appears to glow
Nobody expects an axolotl
With fluttering face fronds, it’s not subtl
If severed, its limbs and brain will regrow!
It pops like a genie from a bottle
Named for the Aztec god, Xolotl
You watch that Mexican Walking Fish go
Nobody expects an axolotl
It pops like a genie from a bottle
* pronounced: so-chee-meel-koh
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Rebecca Rouillard’s writing has appeared in various online and print anthologies, including Watermarks: Writing by Lido Lovers and Wild Swimmers (The Frogmore Press, 2017), Dragons of the Prime: An Anthology of Poems about Dinosaurs (The Emma Press, 2019), 100 Voices (Unbound, 2022), Night-Time Stories (The Emma Press, 2022), and she was the winner of the 2017 Mslexia Novel Competition. She is the 11+ panel chair for the Spark! School Book Awards and works as a school librarian in South-West London.
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