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scartlet, scarlet

scartlet, scarlet

you've got these cracked old teeth, 

nestled at the corners of a whistle briskered mouth 

collecting delicate spivulets of spit 

(And pines collect dew in the morning.) 

 

your gnarled old ass swings and jerks, 

baltering you in contentric circles 

(this year, diamond cut planes of direction collapsed  

into shagged raggy edges)

 

your round little feet 

send you shambling gently into me 

(And a round little bumblebee 

miscalculates,

bouncing sofly against a flower) 

 

your ragged old ears, sweet like soft, like you are soft, 

flick towards me

and lady lady lady- 

 

I Honor You.

 

 

 

 


Shay: Californian/Ramaytush Ohlone Land, any pronouns. Most writing is done in an ongoing struggle to define "wild".

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