TAGGING WILDLIFE

A barren hope is abandoned, a point
of reference shifts. Now eye see I to I.

Tagging wildlife; I am on a mission,
Risking life, a tentative peace, integrity.

A fistful of weeds,
a child’s bouquet, gleaned from the hillside.

I remember this now
as the winter sun lights my way.

Though frozen and fallow, the world is alive.
I am alive and have questions for God.

I am the old woman I smiled at today and
I am the child who cried on the bus.

I am from another planet.
I am on a mission.
To tag wildlife.

R U wild?

Dec. 31, 09