Ah saved by the cat!
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Sent: 17 March 2010 19:14
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Walking the Seasons
This room, its comforts, soft
sheets, firm bed, the white
noise machine pretending
to be the sea -- one dog curled
at your feet, the other twitching
with her own nightmares
on her own bed -- ceiling fan
casting dust & air
on the silk Asian carpet.
The bed clothes are obstreperous,
they wrinkle & ball & refuse
to smooth themselves.
The *better than a man* pillow
isn't. You fall, briefly, & walk
through narrow rainy streets.
Your cloak billows & clings
in all the wrong places.
This wrap, these streets,
this starless rain, all
a clumsy, incompetent lover
sucking & blowing
stalking you into dementia.
You wake. For a moment
you know who you are.
But the rope is cut
& you drift again.
Winter-white, then
tender green -- lush & brazen,
filled with color -- gold -- stark.
A prairie dog lifts its head.
This fog, so thick, unseeable.
Some nights dark, encompassing,
others diamond sharp.
Lovers fly from the branches,
vanish into cloudless sky.
Friends pass by -- drifting --
a turn into dense woods.
You've lost your way.
A speckled clearing.
Ravens, herons, eagles.
Sit & rest a moment.
Wake at dusk.
Animal sounds in the underbrush.
The shutters permit the moon
to leak through. Books
on the shelves whisper,
pass notes back & forth,
each adding a cite, a line
until the final document
is impossible to decipher.
It makes no sense, even
the books don't know
which wrote what word,
what warning, what
admonition. The sea still
waves & washes.
The cat quietly enters,
sits and watches
as cats will do, before
deciding. She will wake you.
She will bring you back
to a bright morning
with clear, sharp boundaries
& obligations. You will
remember who you are.
--
sharon brogan
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