You can make a butterfly with a scrap of tinfoil and a square
Of origami paper held together
With little black twist ties
For legs
 
A chipmunk chases another chipmunk
Across the towpath
 
I love you
I love you
I love you they say
 
This is the soft part we get to keep for ourselves
 
A fairy ring made of neon orange mushrooms and spent Narcan cartridges is still a fairy ring

The grocery store carnations are pink and yellow and not quite white
 
A snail
Plows through the Pleistocene
Its shell a map of the Milky Way 
 
The Phragmites call to the cattails
 
The cattails call to the past

(from “PLANT COMMUNITIES OF NEW JERSEY”)

Author: Michael Dickman
Booklet, 48 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: English
ISBN: 979-8-9955954-5-8
Release Date: November 10, 2026
Publisher: The Economy Press

$20


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