the pink lemonade and limeade colored graffiti lined street

ten steps of a labyrinth slice

the cunning leading the exuberant

first fox, then bear, by his side girl child

what transcends is motion

outrivals ambition

leaving monarchy behind

the adventurers who can’t get lost

in the looking glass, called labyrinth
with Kevin Peterson’s own thumbprint in the fox’s fur

this is not a zoo portrait

but a portrait of a zoo visit

and all three animations are visiting not only the zoo

but this portrait

indicating the allusiveness of the Divine Spirit of Adventure

reminding not only of the creation myths called Genesis, of which there are two

but the child on Christ’s knee,

oh let the little children come to me he pleads and exhorts

in Christmas red and green