Unmade bed of the remains

of a bird

on asphalt unfolded haruspicy direct you

this hour to fill the cup elsewhere

nothing left here is to derange

thirty chickens pick ticks in the field a bundle of feather and nerve

how to starve without dying

how to replace a dead

light

how to remove excess

when knot possible. When derange means

financially solvent children in a nonesuch play park

ashes ashes ashes ashes

quiet in hell is an old punishment

Margaret Saigh is the author of three chapbooks, most recently, I've Created A Thing That Will Never Bring Me Pleasure (Pitymilk, 2025) and the creator of circlet, a poetry workshop and reading series. Her writing has been published widely in print and across the web. She received an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh.