2018-02-16


Herring
--Jim Harrison 
I’m sitting at the window earing pickled herring
and watching the existence of earth.
A small brown bird flies in from the left,
a fellow creature. We are each other
though he’s more closely related
to dinosaurs. Lucky for us
this existence doesn’t include
the future, which at this point is questionable.
Israel and Iran bomb each other at the same
split second. Thousands
of small brown birds will die in what
the media call conflagration, temporarily the world’s
biggest double bonfire. I won’t attend the party.
It’s far too small for God to see
in a universe with ninety billion galaxies
small brown birds and herring.


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