The Skin Cycle V: Stray Stars

Story by Aux Chiens on SoFurry

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I was made to see the stars glow cold

Last night, in sync,

With a distant wolf's mourning howl--

Walking home

With the nightwind at my back.

I had to stop--

Stop, and look about

In bewilderment,

To wonder where

This auditory hallucination

Had taken my memory...For then, I forgot I had

remembered

How this refreshing cool of a Summer's evening

Might be the same as a lonely Winter's night,

When I told my heart to freeze--

And now, how in Summer,

It defies me, and warms the blood once more.

I did not see the sky

As it had been moments before--

A Fire Opal of Australia

In a blackened sable coat--

No, not here, for there was only

The cool-crisp phantasmagoria

Of the forbidding reaches of the Boreal.

And then, all at once--

What was, simply was not.

There was no wolf,

No psychedelic sky--

Just the darkness of a Summer's night

With the nightwind at my back...

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The boy knows how to use his hind legs-- Heart-racing scamper, That little scamp. Barely a creature, Hardly a human-- Liminal being, Just as I-- A phantom, A smile in the fog, Not seen-- A crying laugh, Unintelligible To the ears of the living. My...

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The Skin Cycle III: Better Dog

Hey, hey Boy like the puppy-- Rare-sweet lips Strawberry-blossom honey, Made by hypnotic-buzzing bees. Hey, hey Boy like the otter-- Almond eyes, match Slim-sleek body. Twisted, Making a motion-- Casual flex, Sinew and pelt. Untamed smile-- Wild...

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The Skin Cycle II: Devolution

Prowler, crawling-- Pawing-- Warm wind coming down The pathway made On all fours. Indistinct, from The cluttered noises Of human speech-- Clitter, clatter, Patter, paw-- Down it goes, Down you are, On all fours. Beauty made, beauty taken-- Fluttering...

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