Unsettler: An Affirmation

i am prey i am mammal

pure fear fires my pistons

my eyebrows can pupate

i have outgrown my own hair

earth-bound descended from the trees

i drink from the gray breasts of clouds

on hind legs i hone myself

to the thinness of a blade of grass

ready for the four stomachs of a cow

or the wind to whistle

i speak of the devil of dust