by Forrest Gander

    As if nothing were wrong egrets dip-feed in near shore channels

    the human genome reveals chromosomes from parasites

    annexed by our DNA long ago

    mongrels to the core and tourists

    with cameras take the front pews

    the enemy blows himself up at Passover dinner

    the enemy trembles in a cave starving

    the enemy lets go a daisy cutter

    a million cubic feet of mud slides down the slope

    toward a single bungalow in Laguna Beach