by Lucas Smith
Well, it is evidence,
each sighting and story,
not definitive, yes,
nor a fortiori.
A conspiracy vast
as the moon, evergreen
as mid-tarsal breaks cast
in cryptic Plasteen.
They solemnise burials
gait silent and vanish
behind striplings and owls,
mind-forge their own English
to communicate fears
of what we plucked men did.
Listen—Esau’s all ears,
argue ad hominid.
Lucas Smith is the author of Spare Us Yet and Other Stories (Wiseblood, 2025) and the co-founder of Bonfire Books (bonfirebooks.org).
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