My sister urges me to collect weevils, their tentacles becoming a curio for hands that would otherwise be a cataract of tremors. She herself creates an origami butterfly, a succinct subject of focus, while we are metamorphosed into raccoons in this attic, fleeing parents who have transformed into bickering bellbirds.

Frank Njugi is a Kenyan Writer and poet who primarily writes poetry and short fiction. He tweets as @franknjugi and you can find his published works at https://linktr.ee/Frank_njugi.