February 2024 Flash Lit 3 - Insert

Insert

Something is always

left out.

The dramatic cloudy sky

vaults overhead,

the wind stirs up

wild oats and purple

loosestrife,

raindrops spit on the dry ground.

But I forgot

the ragged V of geese

honking like flying bicycles

pedaling furiously overhead.

I turn their V upside down

and insert them in the sky

where they belong.