
On its back greeting the sun
or so I thought
until I saw it didn't move.
Edging closer, careful,
I poked it with a stick.
It remained, legs in the air
bent at the knees.
The shimmer of its blue-green
body, dulling.
My broken window sill
an altar.
Essays on an ordinary life

On its back greeting the sun
or so I thought
until I saw it didn't move.
Edging closer, careful,
I poked it with a stick.
It remained, legs in the air
bent at the knees.
The shimmer of its blue-green
body, dulling.
My broken window sill
an altar.