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Hold Me

When we gather black feathers

from the nest of the crow

to stuff the head of the scarecrow full, it is not some

obscure form of cannibalism

but a comment on how

fear resides between our ears.

When the days begin to grow

shorter and mornings crisp as apples, I turn into a bear.

I do not yet know whether this is transformation

or revelation.

In the meantime, hold me

close

because I’m open as a window

and the storm is rousing the trees.

from Poetry Northwest 12.1 Summer & Fall 2017More by Michael Bazzett from the library

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Published in Michael Bazzett Poems

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