Saturday, January 25, 2025

A Sparrow Girdled within 
a winter garden I stop. 
An enmeshment of baby bats. 
As flight struggles in the scene where 
A calico eye’s found bounty. 

I didn’t realize how many 
times I need to wash my hands. 
In life, I am failing at hygiene. 
A plastic toothpick does more 
harm than good, 
second person, 
glaring up at me. Why you 
glaring up at me? 

I’m a ripe egg, feathered,
vulnerable as a blind mouse. So shoot, 
burn, throw your throwing knives. I am 
stronger than, at least, calving glaciers,
I am rising from a deep 
rich brown ground. A darkness falls away. 

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