In Search of Eggs​

If you still have chickens,
collect two eggs.

If your chickens have died,
been mauled, or have abandoned you,

then leave your land
and walk amongst the marshes.

You might find a grebe
who’ll lead you to a nest.

She might say: Please,
take them, they’re no longer mine.

Or she might say nothing
but stare into your grief.
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Or you might find nothing
but a lack of eggs.

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Alex Mepham
is a PhD student investigating how background noise impacts speech understanding. Alex has poems and translations appearing in Magma, Dreich, Olit, Berlin Lit, and Modern Poetry in Translation among others, and is working on a narrative chapbook. Alex is also a Poetry Reader for Kitchen Table Quarterly. Alex currently lives in York, UK, and can be found at amepham.carrd.co

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