Transitional: 4 Perspectives

For Nell

III.
 
some special object sitting on the end
 
of the piano addicted to such
 
a wooden step knuckles against anxiety 
 
the pores around my nipples sweat, contract
 
when deprivation threatens     I lose the rabbit
 
search party       turns up an ear, an eye, four legs and a tail
 
in the pocket at the back of the driver’s seat
 
now hanging by the ear from the mouth of a cheeky dog
 
now pegged by the ear to the clothes’ line after a rough cycle
 
waves and waves      of fear I clutch    the rabbit’s foottruly     ‘not-me’

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