A Dream of Tracking
— Nathan Erwin
Look—the last Alleghany cougar running across the road,
its weight having snapped the old elm branch
it leapt to.
Behind your eyes, I see the ghost cat etched in white cedar & black earth.
Our love hides.
Out of dearth & claw,
out of a dream so deep
we wake without a morning.
A blur leaving tracks behind, pressure releases & concentric rings,
the imprint of a startled fall as our future lopes wildly away.
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