Brood

Hey there can’t we just a little look by placing my hand on the cat

I lower my chance of heart attack also, cuckoos lay eggs in the nests

of other birds —parasitic brooding— we’ll never know what

we don’t know cats purr between 20 and 140 hertz the right frequency

for bone growth I can’t explain why the crow raises the cuckoo

why I love you like the chipped mug I’ll never throw away (unless it leaks)

a doctor measures the translucency at the back of my unborn baby’s neck

then tells me how much and for whom I should worry when threatened

cuckoo chicks expel a foul liquid predators dislike Mother Crow,

were you relieved to find your babies alive and trembling in a viscous pool?

Listen, I have never been so relieved to see so little transparency