Study of Small Things

I wrote this poem after hearing last night's news.

Study of Small Things

Crystal H. Rogers

 Daddy heard USDA allowed

a small number of rat hairs

in peanut butter.

I laughed and kept eating.

Now we hear bottled water

has micro and nano particles

of plastic.

I pause to consider.

I know what happens to

rat hair when I eat it:

It’s digested. No harm done.

I do not know

what plastic

may do.

I think I hear butterfly wings.