Remember

 We were birds with cigarettes

all feathered up, winging it

never lower than the clouds we looked up at

laughing at the children as if we were not.

We were foxes folded on the floor

training for additional tails and softer fur

eating the best we could find

dreaming of kind dogs we could play with.

We were stoats test driving houses

you were the wiser weasel between we

i could not understand suitcases thus

my place in the packing was vice presidential.

We were lions recalling herbivorous former lives

certain we have never met in our days ahoofed

We were dragons in a too small room

promising to play again tomorrow.

Mostly pink, at times blue.

This is how i remember and

this is how i remember you.