Untitled (Wolf God)
1.
The wolf god opens their mouth
And out pours the blood and the red world
And they swallow the salt leaving the ocean
And their hot breath dooms the summer
And they lick their lame paw
Because you cannot be unbroken
carrying the world
2.
These are teeth that once devoured suns
The heat warming the tender belly
The light company during the dark winter
These are teeth worn by action by hunger
They once bloodied meat
They crumble now around bone
3.
We are always hungry
We are now desperate for kindness
We sit more often
Our coarsening fur shifting its color toward night
Except where it falls clumping sweeping the dust under us
Climb into our mouth
Our teeth are no longer fearsome
We have been catastrophic
We have been brave
We will carry the water if you will spoon it into our mouth
4.
Our promises were scorched into the earth
And forgotten
We roamed dark as a cave
And hollow
Reveled in occasional destruction
And the choke of smote doubters
We wallowed in satisfied gore
And we bared our red teeth
And we waited
5.
Margeaux heard our gnashing
Our grumbling trembled her feet
Our hot breath slicked her hair with red
She broke us down into shivering pieces
Scored our limbs with nails and teeth
Pried out ribs for space
She assembled us in her chest
Fed us with lung and heart
Electricity and earth
We began to sing
The wolf god opens their mouth
And out pours the blood and the red world
And they swallow the salt leaving the ocean
And their hot breath dooms the summer
And they lick their lame paw
Because you cannot be unbroken
carrying the world
2.
These are teeth that once devoured suns
The heat warming the tender belly
The light company during the dark winter
These are teeth worn by action by hunger
They once bloodied meat
They crumble now around bone
3.
We are always hungry
We are now desperate for kindness
We sit more often
Our coarsening fur shifting its color toward night
Except where it falls clumping sweeping the dust under us
Climb into our mouth
Our teeth are no longer fearsome
We have been catastrophic
We have been brave
We will carry the water if you will spoon it into our mouth
4.
Our promises were scorched into the earth
And forgotten
We roamed dark as a cave
And hollow
Reveled in occasional destruction
And the choke of smote doubters
We wallowed in satisfied gore
And we bared our red teeth
And we waited
5.
Margeaux heard our gnashing
Our grumbling trembled her feet
Our hot breath slicked her hair with red
She broke us down into shivering pieces
Scored our limbs with nails and teeth
Pried out ribs for space
She assembled us in her chest
Fed us with lung and heart
Electricity and earth
We began to sing