Wednesday, 10 February 2021

A Poem a Day (378): The hunting party

 
 
 
The hunting party
 
With time he recreates it,
reshapes the order of things,
 
the sell-out, the hunting party,
first shots & the fallout.
 
Responsibility is too big a word.
He ties his actions into a ball,
 
strands to deep to unravel,
sticks them to the post.
 
Along this pitch-black road,
he cares not how he came to it.
 
He spreads the word far,
this one-sided filament,
 
poison leaking from his hands.
The gloves no longer fit.
 
It’s in his breath now,
pours wherever he goes.
 
 
Copyright Vickie Johnstone, February 10, 2021
 
 
 
 
 
 

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