Dispersal

I hold the passengers in my hand:

perhaps winged seeds, or frogs

the size of buttons. Sleepy bees

 

plump and dusted with pollen.

Inside my closed fist there might

be hummingbird eggs no bigger

 

than coffee beans. Or limpets

on their way back to sea. Maybe

acorns. Maybe insects emerging

 

from transparent molts.…

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