Slug

That albino slug
looks like mobile marzipan,
bending its neck for a nap
in the stitchwort
tufted beside the road.

Brian Alkire is a writer and translator based in Denmark. Originally from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, he studied literature in Ann Arbor, Berlin, and Zurich. He is the author of The Last Mask: Hamann’s Theater of the Grotesque (University of Chicago Press, 2021). He lives on a small farm on the Roskilde Fjord north of Copenhagen.