13 Jun Everyone

is a suspect even you

the squirrel earned 
that brush of a tail 
hiding her eyes

but still learned
what Eve gave

time will reveal 
if you concealed 
a toad’s heart 

to your difficult
satisfaction

spit three times
in my face 
if you must but 
we saw you do it

perhaps you met 
some flatfooted fellow
on a Monday morning

the sea will have
its victim