a roadkill feast, this doe that met truck bumper the black night before
now in the Texas sun, talons and beaks make easy work of eyeballs and entrails
the asphalt a convenient griddle, slow cooking dead deer, while the ravenous birds dine
somewhere in the brush, a childless mother, with no incantation to bring her baby back
this creature without words only senses a void--nipples no longer gnawed and ******
what mourning for this loss, now attended to by buzzards fast filling their guts
until I come upon them, my own bumper approaching at warp speed
my metal beast to avenge this desecration
with a twist of my wrist, a turn of tires
fast from the red road a flapping of blue-black wings--all but one escapes my wrath
he took too long to take flight, unaware my grill could **** with such impunity
a simple twist of the wrist, a bump, a thump, and one less vulture feeds on the dead
above him, his brethren wait, riding cool currents -- my execution but a brief deterrent to their wake
Apr 23, 2018
Apr 23, 2018 at 3:22 PM UTC
a roadkill feast, this doe that met truck bumper the black night before
now in the Texas sun, talons and beaks make easy work of eyeballs and entrails
the asphalt a convenient griddle, slow cooking dead deer, while the ravenous birds dine
somewhere in the brush, a childless mother, with no incantation to bring her baby back
this creature without words only senses a void--nipples no longer gnawed and ******
what mourning for this loss, now attended to by buzzards fast filling their guts
until I come upon them, my own bumper approaching at warp speed
my metal beast to avenge this desecration
with a twist of my wrist, a turn of tires
fast from the red road a flapping of blue-black wings--all but one escapes my wrath
he took too long to take flight, unaware my grill could **** with such impunity
a simple twist of the wrist, a bump, a thump, and one less vulture feeds on the dead
above him, his brethren wait, riding cool currents -- my execution but a brief deterrent to their wake
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