Category Archives: The Evidentialism Files
Velcro Horsedog
I want a velcro horsedog!
I announced to the virus.
The biggest, boldest female ya got,
I told the human.
Now you walk
To where I stand.
Lay
Where I sit.
Nudge me to perilous ledges
Where we sleep.
Now you huff
At shadows I can’t see.
Snort at ghosts I dare not name.
Haul me from the mire,
Then bury your face in my ribs.
You, my tether.
You, my dare.
You, the velcro horsedog
I never deserved—
But somehow summoned anyway.
Once
You are neither question
nor answer here—
only breath,
only the ache
of having once been
smaller
than this.
As if sky
remembered you
before you arrived,
and stones
waited longer
than time
to speak your name.
You walked into the hush
without footsteps,
carried
by something older
than direction.
There is no arrival.
Only the opening—
again
and again—
like an eye
that does not close,
because it no longer needs to.
