other animals

I am miserable / too full
of the wrong / energy / why did
n’t I / start this differently
but instead say the sea / say the
stars somehow / in those distant dawns

before days / what do you want / from
me the mountain / rising up / sure
and slow but / these flowers / have not
yet shared / / a single secret / through

stamen or petal / and does this
dream / always have / to have a / car
chase with an / explosion / but the

pull of some / feeling I don’t / want
but will / now set in / moist concrete