Scott Simpson · Poetry
Oxytocin
Use For Kindling · source pages 59, 60
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Source page 59
Oxytocin
The dog leans in, head
on your leg like a question
he already knows you’ll answer.
This too is medicine:
a gaze that lingers, a hand
Source page 60
on a shoulder, the person who asks
how you’re really doing
and means it.
You don’t have to be
held to feel held. You just have
to be safe enough to soften.
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