other animals

other people’s postcards and the
problems you carried from home but
with new hats from the shop they said
you must visit after some mountain
muttering about air some vista

back and forth in brightening dark
cold coffee chirps though later and
once the music mercifully
stopped and after the little chapel’s

oily beams were whittled into
pencils for disappointed tourists
the sound of the little fountain

took us though we didn’t know how to go
in the small blue shell or its cold shadow