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Hippo lives in the Wondarium beneath the African mud. She considers visiting rhinoceros with her friend the red-billed oxpecker. She also considers crossing The Great Limpopo to see her cousins, the whales, swim past the shore. She collects treasures and songs from the sands.

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HIppo’s Wondarium

“Fill your horn with plenty,” said Hippo in the sun.
“I need your pearls of wisdom to fill my Wondarium.
Comb the dunes for jug band tunes and dive beneath the waves
for precious shells and sliver bells – the treasures that I crave.”

Down in her cool Wondarium, beneath the steaming mud,
Hippopotamus turns her periscope to spy the veldt above.
She seeks the red-billed oxpecker who makes a sprockety talk.
Perhaps she’ll rise to meet him and they’ll pay rhinoceros a call.

Remember the two of us turning stones by the sea
’til hippopotamus made three.

Down in her cool Wondarium, Hippopotamus dreams of whales –
her cousins of the salty seas with their slippery flippery tails.
Perhaps she’ll leave Great Limpopo and journey through Mozambique
to invite her cousin cetaceans for a cup of gamgee tea.

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from The Wondarium – Limited Edition Handprinted, released October 15, 2021
Music and Lyrics by Jeni Hankins, Lulu Wall Music, BMI,
and Alfred John Hickling, Sweet Pea Music.

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Jeni Hankins London, UK

Jeni Hankins grew up in the coalfields of Appalachian in Southwest Virginia among a family of miners, moonshiners, and journalists. Her writing pulls the grit, gumption, and keen sense of observation out of that heritage like drawing water from her grandmother’s well.

In every song, Jeni’s “true sense of place shines through – old as the hills, but brand new at the same time.”
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