by Terry Trowbridge
If a Lego figure made a shield
from a to-scale sea turtle shell
If a dragon scale weighed
the same as air (which maybe they do)
Emptiness is not nothingness after all
The seed is removed and: a leftover thin planchette
of grey wood without Ouija texts at which to point
Evidence that a seed is gone,
like Ouija, a leftover of a life missing
The thing that is here is a thing that is gone
small although it might be
Canadian Terry Trowbridge is grateful to the Ontario Arts Council for their writing grants.
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