What’s That? Poem by Brian Taylor

What’s that?
“An insect.”
An insect? That!
Dragging a fly
along a stalk
with a buzz and crackle that fills a world
down there. That?
Your “insect” is in a glass case
on the table,
dried out to illustrate its label.

Between insect and word
another insect.
Between word and insect
another word.


What’s that?
“An insect.”
An insect? That!
Dragging a fly
along a stalk
with a buzz and crackle that fills a world
down there. That?
Your “insect” is in a glass case
on the table,
dried out to illustrate its label.

Between insect and word
another insect.
Between word and insect
another word.