Wing bolster beam

Illustration: Maaijke Middelbeek

Zoo

Reading your cardiovascular

Black, deep, far away
What do you see?
How do you play?

Questioning and absorbing clarifications, they get you like a batter
With strong precision you penetrate to the heart of the matter
You, always hungry to feed your brain
Even more when poison shifts through your veins

Nothing escapes your focussed blue eyes
You scan objects and occurings like professional spies
Your iris even widens when curiosity is growing and taking over
So I’d say no reason to stay sober

These obstinate features
Make you a most remarkable creature
Not only melancholic, but rather clear
So it’s time to pass that grey zone instead of keeping it near

You know exactly how to persuade and how to enchant
Your perceptive eyes and feral pilus promisses me a fierce romance.

Poem & illustration: Maaijke Middelbeek