Ode to the Animal Within(in the style of Walt Whitman)Not really—no, not really—My needs are your needs, O brother, O sister, O kindred of the earth,Eating, sleeping, spreading seeds—Simple, unadorned, as the fox in the hedgerow, the sparrow in...

  Not really.   My needs are your needs.   Eating,sleeping,spreading seeds.   It's that simple for other creatures.   Not humans.   We've turned our search for food into something more than the need to fuel our bodies.   We've turned sleeping into the search for a more salubrious environment to...

Baby come hereLet me whisper in your earLet's do thingsNaughty thingsThings that will make your mother have nightmaresThings that make the priest say a prayer, but still stareCome here babyWe have the whole nightLet's start this off slowI can...

Take me as the sun risesWhen the night discards meWhen the mind is between worldsWhen the moment comes, I will feel you, it will be the endTake me at noonThe heat scorches the fleshBeads of sweat trickle down to...