Little glass axolotl perfect shades of pink and orange. Found him at the thrift store brought him home & shone him up with some windex and a cotton cloth. Now he sits on the shelf and sometimes I pick him up to marvel at the smoothness of his back, and the perfectly formed gills at the sides of his head. My little glass axolotl is one of the things that pulls me through papers with his tiny smile and teensy toes. This is love caught in silica and pigment. Yes this is what love is.
I wrote this for a creative writing class this winter. I like it and think it's cute