Dry-eyed

By | 3 February 2024

Elder sister’s downy chicks
have lost their peep in butcher’s
twine. You pay in Dong 1 and snap
a Kodachrome and concur a Doi Moi 2
petty enterprise. And your own nan
too−a slayer of bobbing apples held
down. When mother cat adopts
a surrogate sock, you decry the cull
as birth control, mourning kitten coats
through UV tints.

  1. Vietnamese currency
  2. A 1986 Communist Party policy to relax socialist principals for trade
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