notes on a new life

Terrence Abrahams

October 1, 2018

i.

here          the grass wears green

better than I do

 

ii.

hospitality now a question

of territory

 

so how much of myself do I give

to the tiger next door

 

iii.

a wolf shops for housewares          the same way I do

her teeth gleam                    she reminds me

of the dogs I’ve never had               never will

 

iv.

there is comfort in the sleep of fossils

where in talking past lives and conservation practices

 

I learn the slow crawl of collecting

is for diurnal animals

 

v.

this body               now a landscape

population            ever-changing      evergreen

I come to love everyone                     who has ever walked over me

 

vi.

later          weather was improved

the villagers now neither happy         nor sad

still            only frogs refuse umbrellas

 

vii.

 

listen        I can’t pick up a life

I never put down

 

*note #6 is language directly taken from the Animal Crossing wiki page on weather, which I must suggest makes for excellent reading.