A drawing of three poems pinned into the wall: each follows the structure for labeling insects in collections, with a species (or title) on one label and writing on a separate label.
Clockwise from top left:
New friend
Late to the train
there is a yellow
bellied flicker on the
sidewalk
it hit the post office
window
i move it to the
garden bed and sit
with it a while
S. Mark
Shelf
End of the season
resinous polypore in
my foraging bag
it tastes like the water
i squeeze out of it
i collect it anyways
S. Mark
Go big!
Fall 2021
spinning and lights
soda spilling on the
blacktop leaves the
soles of my shoes
distastefully sticky
you laugh and smile
but i look down and
wish i was home
S. Mark