Forever wild By George Cassidy Payne
By George Cassidy Payne
An Animal Rights Poem from All-Creatures.org

Forever Wild
By George Cassidy Payne

"Forever wild"

they muttered
under their breaths,

as the primeval pines
crowded the space
where a deer dies.

County men with steel
pitchforks and plastic bags,

working under a shambling
sky of rain clouds falling,

in the soft distance of lights:

five breaths a minute, crashing
into the hard mildness of a deer.

(c) December 2018

George is an independent essayist, poet, and jouranlist. He lives and works in Rochester NY.


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