*

*

early morning

two birds in silhouette

beneath the big pine

wings outspread,

barely moving

*

left side bird is larger

right side bird wobbles its wings

Crows’ strange mating ritual?

A standoff between two males?

*

I stare, squint and puzzle

the brain adjusts the shadows

that become the heads

of two deer resting–

wing-shaped ears

*

The armed soldier

is a sharecropper

mourning two sons

The immigrant cleaner

taught calculus

in her home country

*

To question our brains’

perception–what

we think we see, know

truth lies deeper