Goldfish

Bagged at the county fair

plastic bags containing goldfish

Given enough practice
a body can learn
to go missing
to protect the parts
always invisible
that have survived
the stabbing attentions
of being anybody’s prize.

Author: Stacey C. Johnson

I keep watch and listen, mostly in dark places.

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