Thursday, May 24, 2012

The Aurochs

 
I thought it would be
a majestic way of dying:

great horns scything
arcs in the air,

bloody, with bellows
like a hunter’s call,

until the cross of bone
was removed from its heart.

Instead, a quiet passing,
bedded down deep

in a Polish forest, alone,
as summer to autumn,

as a childhood myth.

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