The girl\u2019s untouched skin<\/p>\n
never answered her questions,<\/p>\n
so for the past dozen weeks,<\/p>\n
she guards her own body.<\/p>\n
She walks from her suburban home<\/p>\n
to the nearby field, stepping off<\/p>\n
the sidewalks\u2019 stable physics and<\/p>\n
away from the streetlights\u2019 particles<\/p>\n
and waves that want her safe.<\/p>\n
The studied grasses recognize her,<\/p>\n
counsel her to cleanse<\/p>\n
her briny face with aspen bark.<\/p>\n
All night, the geography of trees<\/p>\n
listens to her through the feral ears<\/p>\n
of possum and coon and quail<\/p>\n
who quickened at her arrival<\/p>\n
then grow still, awed by the girl\u2019s<\/p>\n
own light no one can extinguish.<\/p>\n
For hours, the moon lingers,<\/p>\n
diffusing her light through the trees\u2019<\/p>\n
branches, like spottled gleaming light<\/p>\n
refracted in the eyes of wild dogs.<\/p>\n
When the moon departs, the girl<\/p>\n
picks up a psalm in the meadow<\/p>\n
by the aspen grove and bemoans<\/p>\n
the darkness before she walks<\/p>\n
back to her dark quiet home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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