The Day-after – Sunday Ride

Prairie dog zips from
One entrance to another of
Its underground warren

Skink playing chicken with me
On the hot sun-dappled pavement
Exits stage left just in the nick of time

Sentinel bird of prey
On the highest branch of
The skeleton of the tallest

Dead witch-tree

–LE – 6/15/25

Metaphor for the current zeitgeist?