MICHAEL MARK If You Step on This Word Barefoot

MICHAEL MARK | IF YOU STEP ON THIS WORD BAREFOOT

If a bird crashes into your face while you’re reading this and you miss a word, will your mind put it in?

What if you look up and that word is on a tattoo or bus so the poem moves, stopping every other block to pick up passengers still panting?

Would you wait for it to return before reading on? Is here better here?

If a body is buried beneath this word, would you turn the page afraid or cut into the paper with a scissor? Here, I’ll give you a new word

with a light to crawl into.