...

[[ birds of artifice sculpture-formed ]]
.
we joked about the bell-sheep,
Tiresias’ 7 year vagina--
...................... [a failed bird flies head-
first into a switched- on cutter saw]
now she is a speckled grouse, no, dusky; a tiny
language encapsulates in her throat:

--learnt the high-stepped mating dance
................ [what is next?]

--Galiformes; I know my name
..........[what is next is next]

--obscurus, a scrape
of ground hides this young
layer of twigs…

even serpents
are not as thrifty