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Rated: ASR · Poetry · Animal · #2088430
Listening to the howls of wolves
Rising out of my primordial brain,
out of the depths of racial memory
the feral female -
responding to the pack's ancient call -
would transform
my human flesh and bone
into Canus lupus fur, fangs and paws:

To run
the alpha female of my pack
across the arctic tundra's permafrost
hunting migrating caribou.

Line Count: 11
Form: Free Verse
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