[Stylist] a poem

[Barbara HAMMEL]

Anne, I think I must concur with Chris on this one. However, what it says to me, in a very forceful way, is would you love if I was a stranger, if I was an acquaintance, if I was a friend. Or merely it might also be saying would it love me if you knew only a little, thought you knew me well, and knew my inmost secrets. I aspire in life to see the beauty in your poems because I love the nature aspects of your work.

Barbara Hammel

On Dec 31, 2021, at 18:21, Ann Chiappetta via Stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:


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
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