/// At the zoo, she is, to her dismay,
tête à tête with a bird on display.
The sign says “Common Crane,”
but to Séphora’s brain,
he’s the same as a stork. (Naïveté?)
/// She’d just learned she is pregnant— (her sins!)
Maybe more than one. (She never wins.)
She fears pain during birth
and would give all she’s worth
if a stork could deliver her twins.
/// At the zoo, she is, to her dismay,
tête à tête with a bird on display.
The sign says “Common Crane,”
but to Séphora’s brain,
he’s the same as a stork. (Naïveté?)
/// She’d just learned she is pregnant— (her sins!)
Maybe more than one. (She never wins.)
She fears pain during birth
and would give all she’s worth
if a stork could deliver her twins.