…
the occasional tables
were mostly chairs that day
the sun dried tomatoes
were eaten overnight
the winter wren sang
of a southern hemisphere
the peanut butter warned us
‘may contain nuts’
mister holmes was constipated
all the green bananas
breathed with their gills
& feathered quills flew
with the dusters in a circle
over puzzled heads
when the scarecrows frightened
themselves in the mirror
…