other animals

that clouds are cities of unmouthable 
decisions or a tea of argonaut 
leftovers a dogsorrow of train 
timetables for an under-inflated 
life in a book I once trapped over it 

said it was time for his eye to be plucked 
out to make room for the new vegan junk 
food smoothie place and crickets who never 
ask why the abandoned architecture 

shambles to a dented alphabet and 
the wind while you were away rewrote the 
endings of all your short stories to warm

up this salt in the shipwreck’s eye rolling 
clouds to smoke trees soon will learn to laugh