cat eyed
A poem by Amelie Chadwick
my large and loud one, here’s your homework:
follow in my footsteps, stalk sunshine, soles bare
watch out for the burrs and spines!
floorboards splinter like bone fractures
follow me through stalks of sunshine, soul bared
while your empty skins hang on lines
you’re splintering, floorboards like bones fracturing
underfoot, kiss the catkins
as your empty skins hang. in lines,
daytime stars shine on low-sky ceilings
while under heaven’s foot, you kiss the catkins
with eager up-bellied mouths
daytime stars shine on low-sky ceilings
and sometimes it snows on barley fields
who are eager and up-bellied. mouths
whisper across mountain ranges:
“sometimes it snows.” in barley fields,
watch out for the burrs and spines.
you must whisper across mountain ranges.
here’s your homework, my large and loud one.