First Love

 

if i wear what they wear

hide myself in their fur

let my body disappear into antlers and hooves

 

can i become a deer?

 

can i stalk back into the forest?

 

you won’t remember me--

just a brief sighting in your youth

a long-legged doe with blood-stained skin

 

suddenly there in the road

and then gone again

 

early one morning

 

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ART BY SPEL ONER

Spel Oner...professional friend, pixel pusher, medium destroyer, super hero with a maniacal edge. Instagram @Spel_Killz

Katiebird Yates currently resides in Maine by way of New York, Italy, Texas, and Florida. Her previously published works can be found in The Aurorean, Slink Chunk Press, and Bitchin' Kitsch. When she’s not writing poems, she can be found stalking the woods with her husband and their wolf pack. Twitter @zarktwain