When the world
Disappears under your feet
Are you falling or
Flying?

The crow will
Say one
Thing

The fox another

And both are
Right.

♦

Excerpted from Snake IV: Original Grace by Gary Lemons © 2021. Reprinted with permission of Red Hen Press.

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