a house fly mildly attentive
in winged black spandex
lands on the bookcase
above my desk, preening
cleaning the red compound
mirrors of its eyes
she leans toward
my computer screen
reading this poem about her
wondering what metaphors
a random curious fly
might possibly contain.
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Ed Higgins, Oregon, USA
Ed Higgins' poems and short fiction have appeared in Pindeldyboz, Mannequin Envy, Word Riot, Contemporary Haibun Online, Otoliths, and Blue Print Review, among others. He and his wife live on a small farm in Yamhill, OR, USA where they raise a menagerie of animals including two whippets, two manx barn cats (who don’t care for the whippets), an emu named To & Fro, and a pair of alpacas named Machu & Picchu. He teaches creative writing and literature at George Fox University, south of Portland, OR.
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