Yusef Komunyakaa, The Chameleon Couch Quotes
Years ago you followed someonehere, in love with breathkissing the nape of your neck, back when it was easy to beat least two places at once.
A goddess of dawnscooted under a zing of barbed wireto witness your birth.
I'm turning you into a girlchasing a butterfly, a she-wolfon a hilltop, & then back into a woman.