Friday, February 11
POSSIBLE
Everyone’s talking about the dead owls on Nextdoor
Kathy in Tehama is beside herself she loved those owls
through her nest-cam we watched the male approach daily
to offer a limp thing to his mate who couldn’t move
until the clutch appeared downy under agitated wing
it’s possible mice burrow in floorboards mice in walls
sample poisons mice in engines cooling it’s possible
to cut the back of your hair without looking to shave
your legs on a floating dock if you roll with the swells
when neighbors cut an 80-foot pine from our site line
it’s possible evicted birds will trouble the hole it was doctors
who invented the chainsaw a marriage of teeth and wheel
to speed removal of stuck babies trying to be born
think of all the places we’ve traveled on the forward aim
of a circle it’s possible trees reach nightly into the brains
of children to shade them from our mistakes
(Sara Michas-Martin)