Monday, December 2, 2019

Kit Kelen #1430 - animals in my life


1430
animals in my life

bounce by
they light and lift
bank swoop

some surefoot
thoughtless
light of heart
so seeming wise
in what to do

indoors in walls
in thoughts and prayers

the you for instance
others all
and in the end

far seen hunting
come grisly sudden

a skitter and a slink
they lack the winking lid

hide in a cloud, squeeze
hope against
how is their sleep consisting?

cultivate cute
see sneeze
all paws
run the rug

make a dash and sweat for it
never out of ink, ideas

how often they seem to miss the point
wild, and they’re vanished

to camouflage, to ground

tangle of grammar have at

they creep
lovely in their lies
accused of prayer

populate a documentary

rhymed with gone
and smelt them then

day is their having risen
as when I creature it for comfort
and animal myself
in blazing catch
eyes for a dark
to throw paths

die of an honest thirst

they themselves bitten
still linger
come what may

death the unknown
an instant away

and full of tricks as all are

coming through the webs
as if you’d won the race
you’d never known about

these animals, my intimates

as nameless to me
as I to them
we none of us are tame
but
slip through a crack in the dream
just as far as it takes to be

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