on this black and white day
a lady with a spoon in her rear pocket taught me
that you can eat
everything birds eat
but that some of what monkeys eat can kill you.
(this could come handy in a hungry forest)
later I found a dagger in the heart of a tree
a tiny sinowy tree and
a very sharp dagger.
I thought of the knife-thrower's assistant.

later still, night brought color, dark