House of cleverness

My dogs paws splatter on the shallow creek

rusty orange leaves swirling around bright green moss covered stones

Someone speaks to me

They were voices I can’t understand

Carried by the wind

Down the hill 

Through bare trees rattling

Romance casts a thin veil over the threat of loneliness

My dog wants to be a wolf again

And so do I 

I almost forgot

And believed I was a woman

I almost believed the words they said about me

Walls and roof they built around

with their descriptions and cleverness

Things that never sounded quite right

Things that don’t fit

With the anxiety of freedom

And the genius of solitude