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I am an exotic creatureprecious, rare and endangeredYet todayMy paws remember the groundthe Earth rises to meet my pathMy whiskers sense the unseenthe unseen remembers my scentMy keen ears listen to the windthe wind whispers her stories through meMy shiny pelt grown dullwith too much to feelreminds me how to glisten my sheenMy eyes look towards the starsthe stars look back, daring me!The blood in the soft animal of my bodystirs with ancient stardust codes long dormantMy lips are cracked with decoding liesThen the white hot kiss came to find meThe animystic kiss of all Creationlanded one right on my heart!My calling flares up as a thousand sunsurging me towards a new directionclaiming my territory!Hesitating...I step backthen leap forward into the unknownNot with faithbut fear present!Not with hopebut rigorous tenacity!Not all pretty-likewith raw feral vigor roar!Not pretty, not nice, not apologeticI am an exotic creature grown weary ofthe shenanigans of men with weaponsof every kind seeking to tame my spirit!I shall not be tamedI step out of domesticationI shed colonizationI release too busy to restI remember my sovereigntyI claim my saced path now!I am already on my wayto find my feral sistersI shall remind them tooif they have forgottentheir shiny pelt and sharp teethWe shall howl under that moonwe shall walk our sacred pathwe shall not turn back againor spend our lives in reactionInstead of being endangeredI will become dangerousto systems that bind, trap, ensnareReleasing false selves on the forest floorWe will create what we prophecyWe are exotic creaturesremembering our true naturewith power, pleasure, prowesssand passionate flaming hearts!And so it already issssss.Curate Shiloh SophiaFresh of the press poetry that's been brewing for some time. A metaphoric framework for how it feels to be a woman in a dominant culture.Exotic means is strikingly unusual or strange or unfamiliar. The word comes from the Greek, Ekotikos, meaning foreign or outside. The process I will guide you through in Exotic Creatures will be unusual. Outside of the way you have been taught and have thought all your life. We are going to step outside the normative and into the imaginal.In my life, I am on a bridge right now. Having ompleted my first sacred assignment at 55 that I have worked on my whole life. The other horizon is yet to be revealed. I must wait and be patient.There is a bridge between my sacred assignments that must be walked to get where I am going and take as many of you with me as is called.That bridge i
