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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

=Storyteller=

"Speaking is the easiest way of becoming unknown."
—Fernando Pessoa

I can't correct
your endless mischief-making
the screech
of your raptor's beak
it's left me torn
gagged 

by a truth too big for anything

less than a howl
on all-fours by a wet tree
giving birth to a star
that would rupture me

the way you spread 

from floor to floor
strangling the house...

instead I've slipped out quietly its yours

take it 
suck up all the air
in every room
the reflection in every window
is yours
it smiles back at you
but I'm through 
I'm through
& running loose

I've caught up with myself at last
breathless, far from any nest
or burrow
huddling close in the weeds
under moonlight
the secret of all small 
desperate animals mine
whatever's left in the trap
I can live without

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