AI Wrote this Poem for Me for You and then

It looks dead rabbit down there,

I don’t know (me: did I cue Gemini

lurking in my purse in my phone with something like these words

to begin its efforts? The very AI I removed from my phone this morning?)

what your question is.

Can you be more precise? Where is “down” in this situation?

Is this a metaphor?

Is this what you meant to say?

Where is the location?

Here are some prompts you can use: When I say “dead,” I think of…

              (Me, speaking to you in the car): When I reached down to pick up the hose in the deep grass, I felt, jerked my hand back, then saw several mushrooms big as frisbees, color of wild rabbits in the rain, gills black as whiskers. By our tiny bird bath. At first, I thought…I’d like to identify the mushrooms. As soft as overcooked pasta.  Fragrant as rain on ash. At first, I did think dead rabbit. It wasn’t a poem, a metaphor, the whole episode a simple story. A simple story, just me touching something else alive. Just me surprised by aliveness.