"The Bug"
I couldn't let it drown. I ripped off a piece
of my sandwich bag, lifted it to safety.
Its little legs reached behind its back
to stroke its wings dry.
I, too, have stretched my legs
in strange positions. Is this a leap?
What did you expect? For me to let the bug
just be a bug. To leave it alone
when it already planned on dying.
To reach out and not imagine myself the God
I wish would lift me from the water.
---
-- Daniella Toosie-Watson, opening poem from her recent volume, *What We Do With God* (Haymarket, 2025)
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2531-what-we-do-with-god
#TodaysPoem #Poetry #DaniellaToosieWatson
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