Tranceformation (from a dream)

I went down to the spring

to conjure a spell

but a spell was cast on me

watery script bubbled

out of the vent

“Be still and watch” it read

bending over the water

cupping my hand

I drank the elixir of youth

looked again across the spring

startled to encounter

wild panther at the water

sandy furred, green-eyed

the catamount

drank that elixir too

shocked and shifted

spirit lifted

gazed down again to see

not my face, but

a green-eyed cat’s

peering back at me

10/17/2016