[FEBRUARY 2019.]

February 12, 2019

Portland, Oregon

Glistered shell upon the bedclothes,
weep not for the pink and larval
beauty you in sadness squandered:

time was yours, a wealth of rubble
transient to fret love, and envy
vivid to the world portioned.

Dappled heart inside a raincoat,
wet your eyes upon the verdure
of the puddled traffic signal.

All things human are admitted.
Generation floods, and licit
hunger, to be slantwise held.

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Texts and images copyright (C) 2022 Pauline Kerschen. Layout adapted from the Single A Tumblr theme by businessbullpen. The Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) has zygodactylic feet, leaving X-shaped tracks with ambiguous direction. The Pueblo and Hopi used the X symbol to mislead evil spirits. Border folklore in the early twentieth century held that a roadrunner would lead a lost traveler back to his path. In Mexico the roadrunner is known as paisano, countryman.