Jake's Flea Market

there
on the green stage of that leaf   that’s
a thespian breath in the costume of a ladybug     see it

don’t disturb   it’s
a breath in a costume too small
for a pregnancy   look
with short legs the round boat of spots it wears is rowed
slowly up the leaf     watch

i’ve watched costumes that colour 
and with spots like that   paddled 
to the tops of leaves   then
paddled to the bottoms   then paddled
to one edge then paddled to the other     paddled off
off the edges of such green worlds   become
on the underside of leaves
costumes spotted and fire orange and round as suns rowed
across green skies over worlds below   don’t   don’t disturb the leaf
don’t

it’s a breath
in a ladybug costume   plays
the role of a ladybug who looks
looks for something   looks for a place to push
a womb out of a womb   a white
a pale yellow   womb first
one   then another   another   more more   many

looks for a place to leave
a bouquet of wombs leaned upon each other   they’ll look
like rice grains leaned upon rice grains

when the womb is emptied
when the womb again has 
vacancy for a fresh batch of wombs
that neverending breath’ll fly
that costume of a ladybug out
of the time in which we watch