Kit Kelen #1234 - so it goes

1234

so it goes

this forest follows me

round like a dog

worries the bones

barks up

sometimes a horse

or a duck

every shade

conscious and not

uphill in

I square it on foot

squirrel past

rat run

soak up the wonder

of stillness till

meadow deep

sniff a way

like the dog

the forest follows me

on foot

so I go

these leaves

from the naked cold

must fall

to season all

end of the light

I’m a tree

so

hold out for nesting

for morning

for flight