you smelled like an animal


on fire at the wedding, poor goat.
there was nothing to be done for that hair
nor tights itching your coarse fur.
they tried to teach you, the catalog
of grace is fingers

lead arms. ​nothing for your little hooves
they killed you
fur-first. you beast
the unruly library​

of beauty; Alexandria
meaning, defensive.
you unmighty hips
you runaway flames. you feet clop-clopping on the ground



What Animals Are Admitted To Paradise

Mountain goats have climbed their way hoof and tail apart to the tallest
peaks and leaped with lockets of an old man’s beard. They say the
goats that make the leap and survive, the ones that make it

across to land on the other cliff, get their shadows get turned into clouds.