Zoo II

 

from my unpublished second collection    

1.

Closing time, zookeeper.

 

He turns down the walkie-talkie. Steps into the twilight

from the twilight.

   

2.

Deep winter. No more school tours.

 

In the lions exhibit, sparrows

come and go.

  

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First published in The Northwest Review

   

 

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