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Absolutely Revolting
Poem
by Judith Beveridge •
November 2014, no. 366

He has his medley nearly ready. He has pieced together
his own fantasia, even if just from the sound of an owl
regurgitating a pellet of bat fur, a park ranger’s
jangling keys, the creak of cable strain when bored,

 


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