Appropriate Drowning Outfit

I'm not sure how to turn this life into a resume.
I don't write that kind of poetry.
I do notice that the cloud
has a bone missing and
I can relate to that. I'll be honest
and say I have learned only one word
of heron language and it may be
that I made it up. It's easy for me to do that
and I hear people lie a lot in resumes
but I can't, not without vomiting the truth
later on. Which defeats the whole purpose.
Meanwhile is a word I use too often.
It's because so much else is also happening
all the time, and I keep noticing it.
For example, the way I continue to, impossibly,
live. Paying close attention
to the wrong things. The boneless cloud.
The inscrutable heron. The abuse of sound.

Kyla Houbolt's chapbook, But Then I Thought, is forthcoming from Aboveground Press. Also forthcoming is chapbook Surviving Death, from Broken Spine Arts, in November, along with a re-release of the chapbook Dawn's Fool. The chapbook Tuned is currently available from CCCP Chapbooks, here. More of Kyla's work can be found on her linktree. She is on Twitter @luaz_poet.