”We’re still part of the ‘herbage.‘”
“Better the fauna than the flora.”
— from an exchange of emails
DISTRACTION
The grand pyannah, glorious
but somewhat out of tune,
awaits my amateur tickling.
It‘s a great distraction.
Tell me you’re distracted,
mowing down the pages
of your rare old books.
They may not suffice
to snare the world, but
their temptation holds—
wanton picturesque—
words that swarm
over the barricades
like soft soliloquies.
— JH
