Straw-coloured spines,
black tips laid back,
rotund creature waddles around garden.
It pokes its head into a plastic box,
rolls onto a large termite-tunnelled log,
climbs over it.
Heading towards a giant shell under a tap,
it stops to snuffle up ants.
Its long tubular snout searches the shell’s base.
At snout’s tip a tiny mouth appears, and
a long sticky tongue licks up cooling drops.

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