Erika Schnatz 3jungle
Inspiration piece
The Hunt
Joanne Durham
Response
What should I teach you, my child
about the hunter and the hunted?
A sport, you need
a license, a gun, a designated
hunting grounds, to pile
the deer on your truck, stuff
the birds in a bag
A game, boot up,
shoot at a glass screen,
how many tigers fall
at your aim?
No deep throaty wail of death,
no squirm
of the last burst of life
through wounded flesh
Nature doing
what nature does,
Predators and prey dancing
a delicate duet, a rhythm
that always depends
on destruction
Do I leave you
with loaded questions
about the hunter and the hunted:
Are we each one
or the other?
Does it matter?
Can you change it?
Should you try?
Watch out for
trigger-happy fingers
firing instant answers
piercing your mind
like buckshot
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