that's in a nutshell

I lay back like a canoe
and let my long hair
dredge the water.
The bluebird was really blue
its breast an apricot in the sun.

I picked up a human skull
that had suffered long enough
and with my own two hands
smashed it against a rock.

As a member of the world's most
intelligent audience, it's only natural
you ask questions, all of which
I answer with that's in a nutshell:
you can hold it in the palm of your hand,
for it is all that is made.

Mary Ruefle excerpt from "The Nutshell"

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