Poem: Where the Wild Things Are


I am ledges on cliffsides.
my nerves are hoofbeats, bleats
of skinny mountain goats.
My upper lip is a faucet
where the snow top melts,
sneaking downwards
towards the belly bottom.
Soft light grows algae
on the pool there.
Mosquito larvae float dizzy
under fiddleheads unfurling.
Leaking muzzles make themselves
undone underneath me, drinking
between the mossy branches
of my cedar softness.
They dig rivulets and run,
leaving prints between the trunks
that are my legs and the clearings
that are my knees.
I am the mountain yet,
a craggy feast for wild things.

This poem was shared in Grain of Salt Mag, a now defunct web magazine ran by young women and fems. You can find their archive here.

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