Tongue Twister #41 Dragons

Dragons and braggarts and stalwarts
Oh my!
Fires and liars and quires
Oh my!
Wires and fliers and priors
Oh my!
Dragons with fire are fliers
Oh my!

Dragons with fire are fliers
Oh my!
Scales, wings and fins-claws that can sting
Oh my!
Rode one to battle, bare tooth-ed
Oh my!
Bawling and blasting and brimstone-d
Oh my!

Bawling and blasting and brimstone-d
Oh my!
Acrid and acid and ashes
Oh my!
Settled in sediment high
Oh my!
Sky nest for me and my dragon
Oh my!

Herring

Herring
slips through current;
patterned silver scarf
with barnacles of white sweet teeth
that bite through threads:
cutting scales
that shimmer in the wet wild water.

Herring
hung on hook
to pickle
sparkle on the cutting board
in breakfast nook
’til teeth bite clean
the scaley skin
and tongues touch tangy tendon’s
heaving herring haunches