I kept the bedroom light on
a few extra hours
because of the lizard in the kitchen
not the
centipede in the sala
or the spider in the studio
I will not kill them
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they are birds heard
but not seen
swift
gull
jay
and
away to the west
a kestrel
its wings released from the fog
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wildlife in gaia -
the binturong bundled,
with introductions of
mongoose
genet
infertile polecats
eyes asleep
know now
the blows that
broke the boughs
that brought them here
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