- - -
Looking back across
the black expanse,
I clucked to myself,
wondering.
Beak canted,
beady eyes narrowed,
I knew the answer.
Once.
Maybe, I left it there,
On the other side.
- Ernest Lilley
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Oddly enough, this was originally a FB comment on a cartoon my poet friend Mary McElveen posted, which got picked up with a few other pieces by a local paper for it’s blogger: http://dverner.blogspot.com/2012/04/poems-of-week-chicken-poetry-fest-2012.html