Zoo

                 

from my unpublished second collection

       

1.

Sun bear, you’re out today.

 

Fifteen years since we’ve been meeting,

and the yellow crescent on your chest is no less bright, and no less yellow.

     

2.

The tawny owl, under red and blue fluorescent lights, seems uneasy.

   

Such twilight!

And this strange, perfect weather.

                                                     

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First published in The Northwest Review

   

 

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