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Caterwaul, Adam Kamerer
Tonight, sleep
and slip a little
free of your bones
leave, go on, ghost out
into the wilds
and stalk beneath
the cedar trees
and the pines
listen to the sigh
the raw exhale of feral earth
and drink lunar
the loud night.
Before you are ready
come back to yourself
snarled with animals
wake with
a wolf in your mouth
tongue the fur and the howl
work your fingers
through the tangle of stags
that have pranced themselves
into the thickets
of your hair
wipe at the snails
that have slimed themselves
across the white tremble
of your belly
find your lover
staring at you
across grey bedsheets
and scream cicada to them
for the rest of the night.
Adam Kamerer is always getting lost in the woods. His poems have appeared in Anatomy & Etymology, Borderline, and Four And Twenty. He has authored two poetry collections: Bone Fragments and Ventricle, Atrium, credited as Gabriel Gadfly. Read more of his poetry at http://adamkamerer.com.