Monday, March 30, 2009

The Glint of Teeth

We beasts,
our claws sunk in flesh,
have stared at the night
and found it lacking.
We see in the dark,
creatures outlined in blood,
the heat of a frightened heart
beating in the woods.

Our fangs rip
into the neck of a young deer.
What are the stars to us;
what is the moon?
We know the secrets of the caves,
the trails in the long grass
where our ancestors
bit and fought and died.

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