patient mantis
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patient mantis
patient mantis
a young preying mantis
climbed between
the window and screen
at the beach shack.
she didn’t move
for a full sunny week.
i kept an eye on her
wondering if she would back out
the same way she crawled in .
after one week,
i unlatched the screen.
she crawled onto my hand
and I put her in the green grass.
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If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) American poet.