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. 

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