Zooidal Veldt

By WordWulf, 14th Jan 2011 | Follow this author | RSS Feed | Short URL http://nut.bz/bbaa1awy/
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Her striped flesh jumps
Wide eyes reach behind
Legs twitch
an involuntary kick

Zooidal Veldt

Her striped flesh jumps
Wide eyes reach behind
Legs twitch
an involuntary kick
She is running
unnamed fear at her heels
this moment more alive
than ever, forever, before

The hot breath of time takes a lick
She shudders at shadow fang
Her quickened blood howls for release
yet a second wind reaches
Never have her legs carried her so
told her fair what eagles know
Panic and predator teach
true life lies just out of reach

The cliffs call to her
hooves pounding to the edge
Children throw popcorn
squeal at her antics
No danger here she was born
kept by these noisy creatures
have stolen her virtue
offered her shame

These are all she knows
yet the bottoms call to her
Plunge into us your wild spirit
Lay claim your right of birth
Gripped by a rage of days
taunts and giggles of upright fools
she forgets to remember and
death returns to her eyes

Meet the author

WordWulf
Tom Sterner lives in Redding, California and Arvada, Colorado with wife Kathy. He has been published in numerous magazines and on the internet, including Howling Dog Press/Omega, Skyline Literary Review, The Storyteller, and Flashquake. His interne...(more)