for Caitlin
I was brought quickly and gently to consciousness when you changed in the morning. It was like being in the room with a wild animal. I gripped my eyes tightly shut and held my body stiller than it had probably been in sleep. You're the gray wolf: an apex predator; and I'm a boy with googly eyes penned onto my hand. I was in the presence of greatness. But as much pride as I felt for my proximity, so did I fear the primal wrath that your clenched canines and glared focus might deliver. So I steadied my breathing and I waited for the distant clink of a cereal bowl before wandering out from the blanketed cave and into the world.
This.
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