Rock Open Almonds
for J.C.S.

we snuggle up like teddy bears
when it’s cold outside and we are warm

like puppies, weak, a week old,
wiggling, snuggling, needing other puppies

we echo each other like notes
hollered into the hollow of a cave

mystery alone, able to explain
what poems cannot


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2007
5:14 p.m. 18/09/07