Inspired by Prayer and Investigation
Mantis in the middle of the living room floor,
Praying while gently carried out the front door.
My daughter thought it was lucky,
Could have been, “Oh fuck me!”
If not for my glasses it would have been no more.
A child’s day
Revolves around
Bugs
And their activities.
A fly’s buzzing,
landing, vomiting,
Tasting the world
With its feet.
A mantis bright
Green and praying
Turning his head,
An alien surveyor.
A swollen spider
Detecting movement,
Finds the struggling,
Rolls it, and saves it
For later.
A child’s evening
Revolves around
A bug book
And its explanations.
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