The Seal Egg Poem by Cynthia Fielding

Seal egg
Found on beach
Conceals a seal
Egg holds seal
Wrapped in warm jumper
In back of my car
To home
Abandoned on beach by seal
Inside
There is smaller seal
Growing inside egg
I did not know
Seals laid eggs
Until I found one
I thought they had fur
Not fethers
Or scale like a fish
There is a seal in the egg
I move out the remnants of the old chiken eggs
For the seal egg
The chikens that live
Run in the yard with the goats
The seal egg is pulsing this morning
Soon there will burst out a seal
I will feed it with sardines
Shimmering mackerel for the baby seal
Burst out fragments of seal eggs
It will be my latest animal companion
Our friend
The seal from the egg
The egg seal
Burst out of shell
Seal from the egg
Fresh and beauty new seal
Animal miracle