• the teddy bear is six foot tall,
    it scrapes his head on the ceiling
    at night it unzippers its furr skin
    steps out bear as a sheared sheep
    to move with night echoes
    slow shadows a cold silence
    one night out walking he met fire who scorched his
    amber fur
    fed on his soft stuffing
    let the husk of debris
    soot on his footprints
    though every night i hear him in the shadows