2023 NaPM 7 April

[RiverNotch]

Should you dare touch it, then the lark
will pluck you back,
will snip your tail
and skin your legs,
will sculpt you wings
out of your ribs,
will string your neck
with intestines,

will hold your eyes
fixed on its beak
just as it drips
foul poison in
the ears of all
your cherished ones:

tricks that it learned
from cousin goose.