figure of speech with happy ending

there’s meat in the forest
and honey
but the only milk
is secreted by lactating marsupials

for mini marsupials,
please don’t zoom in on their tenderness
avert your lens from that
unthinking intimacy

for metaphor is for pirates
and the rough language of pirates
taking what is not theirs
and dispensing with custom, whereas

you, you are here, you think, so
think a forest
share it between
two skulls or several, for

secrets prolong
any daydream