Between Two Kingddoms

Maybe this is how we were meant to be
clothed in nothing but sunlight
naked flames of the campfire
licking its lips for more stories
each night

The magic of finding fruit
and sharing it

But we are always between two kingdoms
at once wholly animal and wholly other
trapped in the ether of communication
from generation to generation
living uneasily between body and mind

Sunbathing and campfires remind us
                                             of our souls