Four things

I’ll wait for you. 

You can measure in dog years, in redwood years,

measure in the speed of light,

in how many combinations of 26 letters

fill libraries, in the length of a night

during a fight.

I know how to make you smile 

with all your teeth,

your belly laugh is my salvation.

We are free as pups newly loosed 

on the beach, pay attention.

Rachel Wohlander is a writer and artist who lives and works on an eco-art farm on the central coast of California. She received an MFA from Brooklyn College in Performance and Interactive Media Art and had a weird career as an experimental theater artist in New York City before turning west coast eco-farmer. Her writing has appeared in Entropy, Composition, Theater Online, and the Almanac. You can find her on Instagram @raychelju