Windowsill
Dead birds, buttons and zippers removed
from worn-out clothes, coyote vertebrae
strung like beads on a wire, the progress
of an overripe pear, a strong draft saying
the West is on fire, it’s coming your way,
the blank space I left by returning
the dried weeds and driftwood to the sea.
[LSS, 9/12/20]
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