Bring the Wild inside
Let it run around your life
Sniffing, biting, howling
Marking and tearing,
And leave the door ajar so it can escape again,
Taking your best chickens
And terrorizing your Persian.

Bring the Wild inside
     And let the Tame escape
To get briars in its hair
     And return on muddy paws,
          Pregnant, disreputable,
               Sniffing,
To learn what passed in
     its absense.

--SSM 6/23/02