Soft Animal

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We were cloaked in the awning of night or early morning.  
Through the headboard there’s a flicker of light  
and light warning.  
Sophie’s on the bunk overhead reading Mary Oliver  
while I lay still in my bed.  
That’s when I see you there.  
Fawn doe, light snow.  
Make me feel alive,  
make me believe that all my selves align.  
Fawn, doe, light snow.
 Spots on brown of white  
make me believe that it is all alright.  
Your soft face pressed to the wilt,  
first spring sunrise  
standing low on quivering stilts.  
In attempting to keep you to stay
 I am raising no alarm.  
It is just us two alone.  
Then I feel a sigh of wind, your raising eyes
 a rolling fog that lets you hide  
and I can hear the rustling as you go.  
Oh, go slow.  
Fawn, doe, light snow.
 Make me feel alive.  
Make me believe that I don’t have to die.  
Fawn, doe, light snow.  
Spots on brown of white  
make me believe that there’s a God sometimes.  
The ring around your mothers heart  
grows saccharine then falls apart  
and I can hear the rustling as you go.  
You camouflaged or clearly seen
 and nameless in the in-between  
and I can hear the rustling as you go.  
The firing of rifles off  
the echo hits you hard enough  
and I can hear the rustling as you go.
 A soft and skittish self inside  
shines golden, opal, chrysolite  
and I can feel the rustling as you go.  
Oh, go slow.  
A mob a voices harmonize  
and tell me that your not alive  
but I can feel the rustling as you go.

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from Goodness, released May 27, 2016

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