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Logarithms
by Tony D'Arpino
for Miles Castle
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1 A snail
Wakes me from my work
Squeaking slowly
Across the window
Sounding like a night bird.
Moving closer,
Peering out the window
To the garden
I see it:
A grey snail sailing
In its calico shell,
Stalks rising
And falling
And a rubber mouth
On the glass.
The flat slime belly
A rippling ribbon
Of condensed serpent movement
Leaving a transparent trail
Of coagulated scum.
1 Moths
Disturbing my light
While reading in bed
Then later when the lights are off
I hear the moths bumping
Against the window glass
Excited
By the light of the stars
2 Butterflies
By the ocean
Monarchs of the wind
Crushed against the windshields
Of automobiles
Sharing the fly space corridor
Between the blue
And the burning trees
The geography
Of migration
Bright in the air
3 The mathematics of rabbits
And chickens and sea turtles
Lounging on the surface
Color grids inhabiting a pattern
And island codex
5 A giant star
Expanding
Trees displacing
The forest
8 Out in the barn
The bats prepare
For the evening
Tree
Replica
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