[Stylist] a poem

[ckuell at comcast.net]

Hey Annie,

 

If I'm being honest, I don't really get this poem. However, I'm admittedly a
bit of a dullard, and I'm going to save it and read it a few more times and
see what I can make of it. And I do thank you for sharing-one last poem for
2021. All the best in the new year!

 

Chris

 

 

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Subject: [Stylist] a poem

 

The Faith of Mammals 

By Ann Chiappetta

 

Would you love me if I drank your water

Like the quaking prey, eyes darting 

Graceful neck outstretched

Nostrils flared patrolling 

For  the shaggy  cunning

predators of the mists?

Would you love me if I  hungered for more than mere water and 

Dove, driving talons into flesh and carried it to the Airy

Sating  the raptor in my heart?

Would you love me still 

If I drank of your water, washed my body in 

Your sanctified splashes, rinsing the taint of sin from my skin?

Would you

Love me still?

 

2021

 

 

 

 

Ann M. Chiappetta, M.S.

Making Meaningful ConnectionsThrough Media 

914.393.6605 USA

Anniecms64 at gmail.com <mailto:Anniecms64 at gmail.com> 

All things Annie: www.annchiappetta.com <http://www.annchiappetta.com>  

 

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