Anna’s Alabaster Pasta Sculpture
The alabaster pasta sculpture
won first prize, but then a vulture
swept down and destroyed it faster
than an angry kung fu master.
Anna wailed as claws destroyed it.
Now she’d no way to avoid it:
the judge saw 'twas not alabaster,
just white-painted piles of pasta.
won first prize, but then a vulture
swept down and destroyed it faster
than an angry kung fu master.
Anna wailed as claws destroyed it.
Now she’d no way to avoid it:
the judge saw 'twas not alabaster,
just white-painted piles of pasta.
This poem is copyright (©) Ian Brownlie 2026
About the Writer
Ian Brownlie
Ian lives with his family in Marlow, Bucks (UK). He has poems and stories for children in The Dirigible Balloon, Tyger Tyger, Little Thoughts, The School Magazine, Nimblewitlit and The Toy. He has been longlisted for the Times/Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition and Searchlight's Best Novel Opening award. Ian's writing for adults has appeared in SHINE Quarterly, Rough Diamond, Underbelly, Cosmic Daffodil, streetcake and Viridine Lit. BlueSky: @ianbrownlie.bsky.social Instagram: @ibrownlie
