other animals

but I will carry it out as agreed. 
Though I fear this may be the last 
time as my contract has not been renewed 
so instead I will take myself off 
to a greener shore and tie my hand to 

remembering no of course my 
dear you’re perfectly safe and I know this 
is not what we were hoping for or
talking about I never sit by a 

fire in the dark how does it come to you 
nothing else felt so light and exact I 
was afraid of using it up, but no

ten thousand things drowned and swept away
each root I grabbed slipped through the mud