Pink Panther

You don’t go through the motions 
but let them go 
through you, work your 
trauma like an animal 
in the wild might.

You’re amongst friends. See bear, see 
dolphin or dragon catching the nothing 
that catches them 
and releasing it. Holding on only

to what serves them stay free, 
an animal knows what that is. 
A siege is a zoo

and civility a house pet. 
An alphabetical trick 
made the chimera in me non observable.

See cicada or when home is a howling 
intifada. Your heart, utterly flexible, 
a wind like water, 
the stubborn wind.