James Walton #99 Poor Man's Chicken

Of a mountain

you are a foot fall echo

the goat’s enquiry

for the definition of ice

loose change spent

there is no news of Spring

in this we are assuaged

no reconnaissance wings by

taste the butter and pepper

now here is a final crust

fresher than birth

splinters in toes

from a porch of strangers

a circle of amanuenses

to record the shorter straw.