from some of us
they are desperate to extract the wild
to suck the stories from under our tongue
sugarglaze our wounds
bandage the weeping captivation of a midnight audience
for we bleed better than any other
us wild orbits
who hide the wolf in the aorta
and the scream of a horse over a canyon wall
under the paper thin exuberance of a rib
and the forest
yes
the forest of a thousand grimm tails
are baked in every roll
filled with the jam we stole from the witch's windowsill
and secreted away inside the dreams of Briar Rose;
wild things are hidden
every where
and they
are
beautiful
don't anyone
ever
tell you elsewise
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