Overheard at Table 2: Seedpods

Seedpods

we didn't notice them at first.
seedpods.
on buses,
at train stations,
streetlamps,
in grocery carts.

then, a noise, like locusts hum
that filled the sky,
and all the seedpods broke
open at once, and all the 
babies,
so hungry.




MR
2022-0313

(possibly written while on vacation in El Salvador)