4

Bat

The five mammalian fingers,

     the

         five

         bone

     mammalian

         fingers/

furry little animal
quivering by the ceiling,

   a wing
   and a claw,
        come
   through a wall:

lit space, terror

     chirps

     at    e v o l v e d    frequencies

by Michael S. Begnal

Michael S. Begnal is author of three collections: Ancestor Worship (Salmon Poetry, 2007), Mercury, the Dime (Six Gallery Press, 2005), and The Lakes of Coma (Six Gallery Press, 2003). He is published in some cool literary journals, and some not so cool, and in anthologies such as the essay collection Avant-Post: The Avant-Garde under “Post-” Conditions (Litteraria Pragensia, 2006). He struggles like everyone else.