LIVE

NEST

And then there came a day that was a day
a world of my wanting with you in it

and all the small creatures came to our side
mewing and cheeping as small creatures do

a day I had wanted for a long time
a small-creature hour in the life of our day

where there were many places to lie down
and sigh and sleep and cogitate and hug

a huge happening among the small lives
a little cuddle with a dream in it

a coddled egg an apron with a bib
a nest for nourishing the ragged nerves

O robin O rabbit O bat O tiny vole
all flyers and burrowers come to us now

through our heat ducts and tear ducts and chimneys
come to us with your small-world intentions

that place where only we know how to live
where no one else knows what we say and do

no one knows the crumbs or the flies we eat
or the silly songs we hum as we sleep