Uly Does Elizabeth* Does Lewis**: Another...

      * Elizabeth Barrett Browning, influential Victorian poet 

      ** Lewis Carroll, composer of "Snark" 

Whose hope's to hunt thee…? Liste'! I list their trades:

A Bellman with his tinkling bell, his map

whereon where islands (yours!) should sit...? A gap.

A Butcher, one adept with boner’s blades.

A Billiard marker of gynormous skill.

A Broker...and a Barrister to boot.

A Banker and a Beaver follow suit.

A Hood and Bonnet maker ends my bill.

But, wait! A Boots and Baker sail as well.

Required to hunt thee…? Ten plus two, ‘twould seem.

Yea! Five plus five supply an ideal team –

All prompted by that Bellman’s bloody bell.

They’d hunt you, Snark. Your wildwood could run rouge –

Until they'd heard the Baker's fading “...Boo-ooj…”

Uly Does e e* Does Lewis**: Another in a Series...

     * e e cummings, modernist free-form poet

     ** Lewis Carroll, composer of "The Hunting of the Snark"

 tell the bellman 

           who? tinkling his 

                             whatever? bell

{wherefore? beavers at

     tracting (how? butchers as weeee

                                                          ll)}

    matinsmorningnoon (after) dusk 

smorgas nigh(t) dark

                             b-initial'd 10

           when? join'd why?

hunt -- thus -- (a)n...

                                                     ...arC!