13.

grey pants, green satchel
watch that clicks with
indefinable instances
    all acting as
a frame of reference
for the simple question:

     "If I was an animal
      what kind of animal
      would I be?"

Long silence, finger in
salt moving in circles
pressed in table, pressed
in salt sweat sticking

       to finger

the grey pants, the green
satchel, the laughing
  at me wrapped up
  in you.

     "You'd be human."