BEASTS
A 5-color reduction linocut
4.5" x 6.5" print size
7" x 9" paper size
Hand printed on BFK Rives paper
Edition: 14
Sold unframed
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SAM SQUIRREL PLAYS THE ODDS
I knew this was a mistake,
he says to himself, hanging
upside down from the bird feeder,
its little portals all snapped shut.
Now what? he asks.
He’d scratch his head if he had a free paw.
Sam Squirrel scrabbles upright
onto the cylinder full
of black sunflower seeds,
six feet off the ground,
six feet from the nearest branch,
six feet of steel cable
dangling him aloft.
I’m no spring chickadee, he says,
hugging the feeder to his chest,
swaying with thwarted desire.
He’s played this slot before,
hoped all the spinning reels
would stop at
SEEDS! SEEDS! SEEDS!
the whole thing pop open
with a KA-CHING,
spilling black gold
into his lap.
Not gonna happen, he mutters
and lets go.
Leslie Moore
Grackledom
Littoral Books, 2023