all you have to do is move against the crowd dress just outside of your gender grow your hair a little too long or buzz it down to the scalp dye it green or let your grays show, baby let all your body hair roam free, as free as the wind blows don’t fix your teeth free yourself from the box in which society expects you to fit become a misfit among other misfits make existence your island speak a little too loudly about your disdain for authority roll your eyes at the pearl-clutching squares who call cannabis the devil’s weed and mean it wear stripes and polka dots together fuck complementary colors CLASH WITH EVERY FIBER OF YOUR BEING open your mouth to lovers of any gender, no gender, all genders gender bend that shit until you’re your own rainbow dust yourself off defy their expectations do a silly little dance to the beat of their fear hug trees, chat with the birds, and brake for everything be soft as butter left out on the counter in spring love and love and love with every fiber of your being a little freak goes a long way to making life bearable if you let it
escapes or is born — body trembles slick with viscera newborn long-limbed and yearning already in the bright morning light a tangle of donn waves casting amber rainbows in her gold eyes rosebud lips, freckles or mud? between her toes moss spreads, a velvet shoe to enchant travel
my wild wraps herself around trunks bark pressing rivulets into her pale, if she could twine herself between the rings, she would she would stretch out between abundance shrink in drought, knees to chest when night falls, she swims in silver light floats on her back, breasts two half moons bobbing on the surface apples ripe for the picking
she runs with the fawns, all limbs and softly thudding hooves breath rising in ribbons from her nostrils she lays down on a blanket of pale violet flowers smaller than her thumbnail, and dreams in sagas, sagas of her primal yearning, forever untamed and wandering
loose threads 