By ANDA PETERSON

Work with what you are.

If you are a fawn

at dusk

you will

stand still as wood

in a field of tall green grass

at the edge of a  forest

your dark eyes wide open

watching sparrows

flit and fly home 

through the twilight.

If you are a fawn

your soft brown ears

upright will catch sounds

of wind through the pines.

 

If you are a field mouse

you will

scurry, slipping between

wildflowers 

fawn hooves.

 

If you are a human

you will

see the fawn, the pines, the wildflowers

feel your breath as wind,

how your heart beats as

bird, mouse, fawn

 

then and only then

your tender work

is done.