other animals

as I play in the guise of the 
old trick cup that stays dry and 
overflows at the same time and 
is soon set on a high shelf once 
the nostalgia has outgassed but 

no maybe that’s too far so what 
else an unmolested wooden block 
a townhouse for parasite birds 
but no this palimpsest is badly smudged 

and besotted with globs where light 
is most needed and it takes time 
to unwind even a few sounds 

to spool into a small sequence 
then we need to buy all that salt