the heron rasps the unsayable
a crow answers, a duck loudly denies
what they know we have forgotten
Milosz has the Spirit of History say
for punishment I took away their reason
because a woman told what a powerful
white boy did twenty five years ago
she & her family have had to flee their home
loud clatter of wings, ducks apart, ducks together
the voters elected this pig so that the understory
could be told, the swinish greed to consume
everything — when it’s over
what would it mean
to be over? the pig slaughtered, spoiled meat
left for maggots, for microscopic life
a new world hypothesized by peasant women
riddles in long dark skirts, glee & wisdom
flicker from their weathered eyes
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