lecture thirteen:

she is wise
in her madness
the solitary wren.

wingtips flutter,
perhaps, after all
she is peregrine
as she swoops and dives
but What’s in a name
when the question at hand
is speci-alis

Unlucky Thirteen, or
so it’s been told
but what if
it were eggplant?
a difficult matter
so muse.