Friday, December 17, 2021

Primitives at Solstice



Hungry for magic (Getty Images)


Walk in the skins of the dead

in their feathers and furs

with wolves in the lead

into the black and brown forest,

we masters of language and fire,

upright and savage

with instincts of eons,

hungry for magic,

violent over-sized brains

programmed to do the wrong thing,

thinking ourselves

in a new age,

the sun low and brief,

the whole day a twilight.