Today's poem is by Lana Hecthman Ayers

A Few Things I Learned This Week
        after William Stafford

Gnats drowned in the cat's water dish
look an awful lot like fleas—maybe all
dead things look more alike than different.

A poet once said first thought best thought
then crossed that out.

There are podcasts for everything,
even how to emoji your way
into a person's heart.

My husband, who's reading about cosmology,
says things in the universe are moving away
from each other so fast, the stars we see
aren't sending their light to earth any longer.

Rare things aren't necessarily better.

Petrichor smells as pretty as it sounds.

A cow will cry out sometimes when flies
stop biting her flanks.

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