Thespian
Crepuscular means
“active at twilight,”
but zoology does tend toward drama.
Yes, we are currently five Einsteins
away from nailing the mystery of existence.
Meantime, the dictionary has been consulted:
“ex nihilo.”
On a warm summer evening,
absurdity darts overhead
like bats.
Message
I went all the way to the city
to be told
that water is symbolic of the irrational
Streets end in water
pregnancy ends in water
my recent food poisoning ended
in water
I flushed
and with the tip of my key
I scratched
my logo into your driver-side door:
“Yesterfang”
—a word found online and fallen
from fashion
well before the previous century turned.
Header Photo Credit: “Bats Flying” by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/Ann Froschauer, licensed under (CC BY 2.0) via Wikimedia Commons and Flickr.
Image Credit: ‘Soon she was lost to sight in the Danube’ by Arthur Rackham from Fouqué”s “Undine” [1919], licensed as public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
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