The Caterpillar Speaks
By Midge
whatever returns from oblivion returns
to find a voice
.........................Louise Gluck
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The Namer
The Namer First is the owl that manages a half-hoot before your voice unravels into its ears. I've not seen it off your shoulder since. Dogs, too: strays whose names I can only guess
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Stick Figures
Stick Figures For Pippa Small burst of water, then the quick bob, as if an otter steadying itself against the current. Then we'd rush over the mist-wet wood to the other side
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Taproot
Taproot Several hours walk outside of Bakau, dirt track after dirt track and any tarmac hissing with heat mirage. I pry past the prop-roots of mangroves into rusting wire and diamond
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Magpie
Magpie I watched you, Brother, hurl that half brick into the birchlings, followed the wails and found like you that splayed schematic of a magpie, ant-swarmed.
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The Witch Doctor Consults his Divorce Lawyer
The Witch Doctor Consults his Divorce Lawyer Who can say which comes first – the cane toads with their bassoons or the rainstorm? The red-faced
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