Zinnia Valentine (Continued)

2.

I would like to find a place
in the tall grass to lie down
and curl up like the place
I found once still warm
where a deer had slept
a little room open to the sky
so I did lie down
in that heat and faint
musky scent to rest
listening to the air
a part of the life of that hillside
sleeping and yet never
not alert in my dreams
to the moment of leaving.