Wednesday, October 24, 2012

A New Nature

Lined blood-red, fanged
Relentless

Angling inward --
ever in

The questing maw
Hot, clean breath

More horrible
than the smell

of dead things.  Freeze,
flee or front:

nothing taught us
on new moons

at cave thresholds
prepared us

for predators
who feed us

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