the simple pleasure of existence
two men hunt insects
pulling beetles from a knothole
dragonflies:
strength
courage
bravery
fireflies:
unrequited love
we learn from insects
their numbers are much fewer now
one stamps a tree trunk
crickets with weak wings cannot cry
Zoo Dreams
Nenette,
Red-haired
Forty years old
captured in Borneo
peers outward
bored.
“If she dies, we’ll miss her.”
Nenette
makes faces
in breath steam.
Distant voices
fight
against layoffs.
Nenette
lives
in the “now,”
“drained of curiosity.”
a captive
behind glass.
Reel Indian
If you owned hell
and Arizona,
you’d live in hell
and rent out Arizona.
To you
this is bad land
rock
scrub
desert
a hard land
The sun has sucked out all the good.
You can’t farm it
You can’t carve it out
so you damn it to hell.
To him it’s almost human
a living active thing.
a good place to make his fight.
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