Preparing Leather

fox, salmon, newt

Who do you become?


In the fox's throat / a woman's scream
already elsewhere,

in the salmon's belly / emptied
before arrival,

in the newt's heart / which grows back /
without instructions.


The field widens
as the hawk passes.


Miner's lettuce after rain /
tender where the boot missed.


Tallow on the ledge /
the candle
remembering the animal.


You can prepare the leather.
You can prepare the room.

Who enters it
is no one
you have met.

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