forgive me for that day in September when I wrapped you in a Mao-green papoose
Indescribable light
I understand we are only metaphors
Allegories
Parables
For feral mother love
Howl at the moon
Stalk the night forest
Accost the brothers Grimm
With the spindle-pierced grief
Through sinew and heart
I held on as long as I could
Then looked for you on each horizon
She-wolf helpless
Caught in the trap
Of human law