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Ever the Newborn Foal. {poetry}

 

“You know you have bear in you too,”
he said.
“And otter
and wolf
and eagle and fox.”

But I didn’t hear him.
I shifted one more time
feet stumbling
ever the newborn foal that I was.

I’d shiver at the sun
and twitch from action
and cloak myself in a shadow
or the night
or someone else’s luminescent light
just to get out of the way of it all.

When my voice came out, it was a rasp —
wind creaking through battered trees,

and if I left footprints
anywhere
you were soon to find me quickly
sweeping them up
preserving the ground the way it was
before I came along.

He said it again.
Later in life.

Then later again:

“You know you have bear in you too,
And otter
and wolf
and eagle and fox.”

Luckily little foal had chance to grow.
My life wasn’t over yet.

Yes.
I had bear in me too.
And otter.
And wolf.
And eagle and fox.

And me, among many other things.

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Brittany Connors

Brittany Connors

Brittany Connors is an actress, writer, and general life enthusiast based out of NYC. She is a lover of story, text, and all of the various expressions we find to make sense of ourselves and the world around us. She believes all expression is a celebration of this breathtaking existence.
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