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wilder things:

missed connections

I was a coyote picking apart the wolf that had been terrorizing the stags in our neck of the woods

you were the stag that had had enough

it was glorious

I was awestruck as I watched you rear up and slam those big powerful antlers on the fierce predator

just as quickly as it had started

the wolf creeping close,

you spotting her

you crushing her

me eating her

I wish I could bring you dinner

but you are an herbivore

I am a scavenger

the quick violence of my evolutionary grandmother's execution

was Poetry in motion

I'd love to see it again.

she tastes like the violence she lived by

I wonder how you taste

it might have felt twisted eating the she wolf, she and I certainly knew each other though we weren't close

ultimately we were different kinds of carnivores

Canis Lupus, gray wolf. a fierce predator, a strong and violent carnivore, last modern relative to the precursor to all canines.

Canis Latrans, Coyote. Scavenger, trickster, intelligent eater and maker of dead things.

Cervus Canadensis, Elk. herbivore, large, prey.

me, Latrans, my fallen relative, Lupus, her killer, Canadensis.

I watched

I salivated

when I fed her blood was warm

her meat was warm

her eyes weren't yet glazed as our dead get.

I watched as the crows circled

I'd gotten there first

Stag

I suspect I'll get to see more of you yet

when I tell the she-wolf's pups of their mothers death

wolves are pragmatic

nature can't help itself

they won't want you dead because you killed their mom

they'll want you dead because hurting a member of the pack hurts the whole pack

I'd love to see more of your poetry

The quote "you and I are gonna change the world" hits different after the teaser.