Biodiversity Twenty surreal micro poems By Yariv Zerbib Summer 2015
On Thursday It happened during the war The cricket died The birds were screaming This cannot be
Only ants remain alone.
Venom The snake that slithered inside my body Shed his skin and felt For his prey Now Beware all city mice.
School Stop I asked Stop I'm not who you think But the birds kept pecking me.
Daydream On the middle of the path An armadillo appeared from my shadow And said The secret lies in water.
My sin I cleaned the letters that appeared on my tongue Ocean fish attacked me in their multitudes I did not want it to end this way It was not the intention I am just a snail.
In the universe I was so happy to see A flock of whales Crossing the sky To Infinity.
Sunday morning I love coffee Especially when the seeds arrive from planet Venus They have a fragrance As such That causes shivers.
Far away Millions of penguins Took over a vast area of the Mediterranean A Norwegian police commissioner intervened I urged him to stop After all It happened naturally.
Back from vacation Many stingrays returned after a long stay on the moon Why did they not stay longer? I thought The view is spectacular there Probably An electron wave blocked the sun.
A spark in the ground I dug as deep as I could The centipede decided that enough was enough There are too many spying birds Clearly Gold-saturated bedrock.
The petting zoo There are too many planets inside the helmet You will need cannon Just to loosen the atmosphere Know The truth is always dark.
Fortune I sold all the assets on planet Pluto I'm rich I can now Live As ant live.
Butterflies Valley The fear that something was going to happen Placed billions of Meerkats on their feet Buildings collapsed In the end It was a supernova in a neighboring galaxy.
Marlene my love The distance between the two universes is enormous The eagle walked away from responsibility If only the crow were there I knew It could have made history here.
Inside my glove The chaos began when three atoms rebelled The cell has multiplies by millions No choice but to Release the rabbits free.
Trip to Maldives Who needs rules? There are too many sharks Swimming in a teacup I will need a doctor to navigate traffic And it is also expensive.
Here and Now In a land where there is everything There is no room for nothing In nothing there is space Where there is everything Even Adult elephants.
Sit facing the sea The aquarium is not big enough To accommodate solar system we need a monkey wrench Go learn from the Indians I could Hide everything.
13:23 I did not want to be alone I ordered a delivery The kangaroo that knocked on the door gave me three words Propeller, cape, tomorrow.
Astrophysics I see god through physics I become a neutrino Energy came out from my hands, and successfully touching It is not a light. It is not a cloud. It is not human. I can simply feel it inside my stomach.
Yariv Zerbib is a short story author, novelist, and poet. His first book of poetry biodiversity came out in early 2015.