Baby Racoons

Yeah live forever mood

as a minnow school

flutters patches of pond

& gramps jumps into one of those

haggard, saggy, where am I? naps.

Lost it minutes later—

baby raccoons

stole our cat’s food—

had to come straight here.

Not *here* here

but to the everydayness stage,

kinda flowers on a kinda desk,

stacking & wagging

small potatoes into big,

small then big like the Eiffel Tower,

or emotion, when we try

& fail to hold in laughter.

May 21, 2024
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Poetry
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