Pick Eye

How long can you let it stay in your eye?
easy to feel but not find

The search agitates the eye
more than the intruder
forgotten for the day
until the evening when
the lash sticks its one end
out like a kid
crawling out the door
in a hurry to evade
the mother

More than happy to
pick the eye
like an expert
without
the help of a mirror

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Pick your ear - Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking - O. Henry

Repoussoir

Concentric circles
of dried minerals
into the bowl
on its first day
of being a bird bath

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Aldegrever Heinrich - Joos van Cleve - Jachim Patinir - Repoussoir
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Olympia Marblewing

Note this steno's
antennae
a modern mic
her sparse stole
how pure to reflect
fresh white petals
and green sepals
that she lands on

A zebra swallowtail egg

A tiny green grape
so small
that its spherical

A Pudin Hara pearl

A sweater button

In it is encoded the
recognition of pawpaw
leaves

Bird bands

of different sizes
next to each other
like measuring cups
of 100ml, 200ml, 500ml, 1l, 2l
of an Indian milkman
or an oil grocer

Young clothespin

How old is migration?
Older than its first viewer.
Everything has a time stamp
A banded bird
Its band

Radiometric dating
Fossils

Sails down

She sat on a bench           Black Crowned night heron
still in grey         stood fixed like a statue

a flock of birds             In its dormant time
could have made             the heron was no good
her move with them            to distract when its even
to the next thought             hard to notice

Some wind pushed her to move on while the heron stuck to its ground