Tag: fur

• I’d forgotten how much I felt 
  for him pushed from bad to bad snagged 
  by drama he can’t comprehend 
  attacks he won’t defend against 
  running to the old house the first 
  
  time he escapes, the garland for 
  his dusty fur from the gentle
  girl of sorrows also to be
  crushed beneath the wheels of children 
  
  tossed away and won’t live with the 
  wound and a clear night a forced march
  and fireworks and more and finally all
  
  alone, sniff the open air, bright 
  sun, new friends, and no more burdens 

  March 13, 2026

  sun, children, air, friends, fur, fireworks, Balthazar, drama, old house, garland, wheels, burdens

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• such energy though these eyes still blurry

  but the day begins early & takes the blame

  for every flattened patch of fur on the highway

  for the last two weeks and what do I know I

  wasn’t there but you feel the flies surround

  you & maybe we got off on the wrong

  foot and maybe that’s all there is now

  in the still heart of the great machine a

  few sparks with dances to come and yes we

  can agree that I use the word too often

  but it’s still the right one for the job and

  out in the forest it sniffs a mushroom

  and moves on since the field guide’s at home and

  doesn’t want to take any chances

  June 29, 2022

  blame, dances, day, energy, eyes, field guide, flies, foot, fur, highway, machine, mushroom, sparks

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• though it swings this way twice a day few have so much as caught a whiff of its fur that shines with the earth’s last greasy riches

  September 5, 2021

  earth, fur, greasy, riches

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