Edward Johnson

Eight Lines About Eggs

I sometimes live on the edge of forgetting

The ease with which I can crush 

The dome of an egg on the lip of a bowl

Forever stealing its former eggness. 

A twisted protest of leaf-cutter ants

Does its time-lapse etch-a-sketch 

Of tiny hoofbeats on the jungle floor

As night flips over easy into day.  

Edward Johnson is a civil rights attorney.  For many years, he was the Director of Litigation at the Oregon Law Center where he represented people living on and over the edge of homelessness.  He now lives full-time in a cabin in the North Cascades.