#1921 - some creatures are pleasing

 

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some creatures are pleasing

or

the fear they have of us

 

for international day of the rat

 

 

to run so

corner of the eye

to hop so hard away

 

something bit me

in the warm place

in my fold

 

the water dragon

the dragonfly

as if to entertain, delight

 

such firstly birdsup

winging singing

chattering up bright

and see

the ant’s inch

for a diligence

 

others not so much

 

the fly, the mouse

land mullet

 

the good soil worm

versus the slater

 

one of the great good-evil tussles

dental hygiene versus the rest

 

they are building the day

from out of spare parts

from all the days before

 

do they even know?

 

a frog indoors is different

 

here’s the pale noon dark

of the weatherboard winter

 

something bit me there

 

some take their deaths

like water to fish

by net, by hook, by mallet

 

and we are death to them

though they lack the word