preparations

needle, red spool of thread, plastic
thimble spilling over, syringe (needle
popped off), bees in the bottom of
a glass globe, wings twitching, antennae
to the left, middle, right, white acrylic
paint in a half-folded tube, a folding
table stained with nacho cheese, the tail
of a cat, rapidly vanishing, handprints on
the thighs of jeans, brown wool sweater,
moth-eaten, stretched across cardboard,
a liquid iron supplement, sticky spoon,
a piece of black plastic, a hole in the
middle, the shape of a startled fawn