Lavina Blossom
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Distant Concerns
What is that
in the rafters? Not
a sparrow. Could it be
a crow? Can you see
it flapping, caught by a dire
instinct to go higher?
Certainly not a fly
and not a moth, of too
much weight and desperation
bashing itself against the beams.
Not a bat, that little man
with a face half pig half rat,
and claws, and a span of leather
taut between thin hollow bones.
Something akin, though, and bound
to weary. Best not stare,
lest it posses a sense for--
who can help it?--fear, and strike,
or simply giving up on up,
no light for flight there, drop,
perhaps confusing faint reflections
off the globes of our
moist eyes as friendly
inlets far below.
Bio
Lavina Blossom received her MFA in Poetry from the University of California, Irvine. Her poems have appeared in The Literary Review, California Quarterly, Kansas Quarterly, The Paris Review, and other publications. She is currently working on a novel.