I want your head to be as close as possible to mine
Touching, definitely.
We need to push our noses flat into each other.
We should probably close our eyes.
Then hum.
You hum one way
and I'll fill in the space around your sound.
Put us back
in the waiting room with our tote bag on our lap
and feel the nerves we felt
brewing as the time passed
until we were called.
Feel the gaze, feel the compassion.
Imagine it was good. Believe.
It was all good news.
Exactly what we'd wanted to hear. Nothing more.
Nothing less.
and then we were released into the world.
Through the double doors out onto sidewalk.
And walked past Darwin's huge windows
and felt relief and a slight surge of peace.
Is that joy?
In a world in the air above, a hawk
pulls up on the skin of a rodent
and jerks it by its tail
to get at more meat before
scraping her beak
along the bark beneath her feet
and jumping off quickly
to fly away low and fast.
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