alfie lee writing

buffalo

three weeks on in
my coat of flies,
i see at last
my dragon eye

to eye. his bank
circles the mud-
hole where i'll die.
they've kept patient

watch, deference,
till one eager
flicker of a
fork incites, blood

appetite, through
ages honed, come
dawn i am scraps
of horns and bones.



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