[from Muddy Prints, Water Shine]
Hitchhiker
The hermit crab
is wearing
a snail’s shell.
Articulate
legs flank
the pincers,
antennae weaving,
eye stalks,
domed medallion.
A pen forages
inside the shell,
frees a tail
that coils
around the ballpoint tip
— is inked.
Emptied shell.
Spilled being.
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