Zoë Klein Poet ~ Storyteller ~ Internationally Published Author

species: peter’s epauletted fruit bat (epomophorus crypturus)
genus: epomophorus (eleven species)

some bats like to cluster
to keep each other warm.
but if they get too close to me,
i’ll jab them with my thumb.
i do not intend to hurt them
or do them any harm.
give me a radius of space
and closer do not come.