TAKING OUR DOMAIN - Assuming our domain
- about the creatures of the earth-
- dog, cat, sparrow
- tiny mouse
- winery (who lives in our kitchen
- as a blur of light
- running along the edges of our vision) -
- how we understand humility?
The - mouse poop
- our silverware drawer
- bother us.
- The infinite
- insects crawling from the walls one by one,
- only to be crushed
- under our soles.
- Our souls are heavy
- with the deaths of animals.
- Ocelot, beaver, fox
- and even ugly slant-eyed mink
- women give their skins
- are not beautiful to God themselves.
- The lowly cockroach,
- patacón or seeking admission to our bed
- on the back of a gentle dog
- is loved by a Creator.
- Assuming our domain
- made us crazy,
- has made the earth fragrant
- a
- where mice that fill the edges of
- our eyes
- and run off our desks and dreams,
- are the fears, the looming fears of our own species.
erika jong | | |
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