Scoundrel Time

CHOOSING ALTERNATE FACTS, FEBRUARY

An iris dares to bloom.

Six wasps
chastise a window
from inside, ignore
an open door nearby.

For hours.
They walk the window.
One by one, four mount
The rod I level to the pane,
Lift out the door.

Two more resist. Afraid, enraged?
They lift their weaponed rears.
Again, again.
I let them sleep on it.

Next morning:
open door, the stick;
the trapped persist,
hold their position.

A fresh wasp stalks
another room,
does not refuse the stick,
the door,
the open air
outside.

The iris nods.

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