Large Animal Crossing Etcetera is a site of children's stories, memoirs, illustrations, poetry, vignettes, & photography involving memories honoring one life.
My brother Rescues me from drowning As Mother watches She is within six feet of me I am at the bottom of a pool repeatedly pushing off to seek air at the top looking up at her Her arms are folded she stares at me A statue My brother is six years old I am […]
continue reading Flawed PerfectlyAlways Finding my way Chasing until The wind ceases or The light fails or I fall down or I have a seizure or I become famished or I become thirsty or I blackout Too thirsty to think To travel To love To endure Stop it. Fill up Begin again And again Do it. I […]
continue reading Just Do ItSo far So long So hard So miraculous My heart is hurting It scrapes and burns On the days and moments I remember, yes I remember your touch Your heartbeat Your voice Your eyes Be well. Art & Poetry by FawnRising©2019 June 6, 2019 Crystal Lake Florida USA Earth
continue reading Still Standing & By the Way, Goodbye…Look closely The cat BeauCoup snores in the window Candles flicker A harp plays The walls speak Hand-poured and steel-reinforced I write I illustrate I can feel him Even the courts of law could see I needed to be raised by him When I was a wee girl And his brain full of seven languages […]
continue reading Surrounded by Papa