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Forest, Baby Blue
Lauriette (Laurie Byro)

Every sorceress is a pragmatist at heart
-- Louise Gluck


While I busied myself, sweeping up
nettles on the forest floor, hanging
pinecones (gutted and lit with fireflies)
a nemesis (you know the one)
turned you into a reindeer.

I could say, it doesn’t matter.
I could urge you on, thigh muscles
still sore from the last time you exposed me
to your buckish nature. You could easily
carry my weight through a sentinel of trees.
My hair rolling silver down
my breast while we part rivers,
make our own waterfalls.

Instead, you look at me with mournful
eyes, beg retribution. An army of deer
pause for you to join them.

The forest floor moves, trips us up
with its mossy carpeting. I wonder
should I continue? I need to string cranberries,
throw moths into the air like confetti.
I need to coax an egret
to give up its egg for our supper.

The forest waits, birds stop their evening-song
to listen. The pine forest is an ocean
to row against.

It’s late, vagabonds will look for a place
to sleep below canopies of hemlocks.
I strike a match on one of your antlers,
start a fire for us to sit around and tell tales.
My lovers are ghosts who will not leave
nor follow. See how they watch us, silently
condemning us with dead eyes.

There is only one star out tonight
and we are falling.

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