Dylan Rivera

Those Who Cannot Speak

Owls create shadows that hurdle with trepidation.
Their eyes cut behind your ears
to keep you from listening to their words unsaid.

Trees apprehend into night and become protection from the hazardous burrows in the early afternoon.

Frogs feel silly with a child's tongue.
And dogs are always quickening their haste.
Fishes lie forever in oceans unseen.

Like natives in their home land.
They are comfortable.
And beautiful.

Rats are simply awful.
Wet, under tracks.
Tittering among begotten filth remaining from resentful souls.

Constantly ...