Neither/Nor

Poesy plus Polemics

(Reblog of a July 2013 post)

“Howling Wolf”
Painting by Alison Vernon
From alisonvernon.blogspot.com

you stalk chocolate shadows
laid down in the gloaming
dividing your snarls
between lapdog and wolf
always heavy with impudence
yearning for stable identity
damned as a shapeshifter
unholy changeling
among despised creatures
who live and then die
in their very same skin

what cronish cruel hand petted
curses above your furred brow
giving fright to the nights
full of silver-blue moons
stealing peace from paws
never to sleep under pedigree
running from pitchforks
and mad torches brandished
by men in flax tunics who
hate their existence as much
as they fear knowing you

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