Mount Clutter by Sarah Lindsay

Author:Sarah Lindsay
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grove Atlantic
Published: 2002-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Corbett Island

If you were there

you might feel a thread of something on your arm,

nothing you could see, and another.

Later your hand, brushing off that nothing touch,

might roll up a little green remnant with legs.

Later the sun might catch one on your knee

so you’d see it, transparent, green, with big pale eyes,

wings crested high on its back.

The sun and the labor of newness might put you to sleep

among all the things you’d never seen,

and they’ve never seen one like you,

but they land on you lightly once you’re there:

elbow crease, thumb web, eye tuck.

A good moist salt they’ve found and more keep coming.

A shape like yours lies over you

made of tiny transparent scales.

They fly away glistening, leave you dry.

You’re gone. But every single one

of your visitors will have a thousand children.

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