wolftrap and fireflies

transport me and quarantine

this feeling that is seldom scene

i'm curious and fevers peaked

delirious with this mystique

soaked in a blanket's warm

ember glow

freer now than i've ever know

i dance the fire with a crazy glaze

and juxtapose to coin this haze

wolftrap and fireflies

what does it mean?

oh

the image sticks like glue to me

is this to make some sense

some evening

quiet with a candle. cheat to bring them near

oh

silent

i the hunter

til the answers clear

i tried hard to peg this feel

the catch proved much too big to reel

you blink

you miss and bliss is dead

playing spotlight with my head

pop up unannounced

take aim

snap the traps

quill-dip and adjustaprose

snap-shot record what image glows

i know their eyes follow me

track my prints

encircle me

taste. touch. smell. sight. sound

eyes look up

ears to the ground

soaked in a blanket's warm ebb and flow

freer now? i just don't know

slate-gray sky meets musty green

can you smell the mossy world machine?

cunning and captured.free and endangered