martyr of the hunt
she rests high-headed
in the sun
while we mill
shiver and click
behind the glass
in a flash
her jaw unhinged
skull crowned with fangs
and great tender
blood-lapping tongue
two creatures in one
pulse never rising
above our station
—
Zenobia Frost is the coordinating editor of Cordite Poetry Review. Her work has appeared in Voiceworks, Overland, Southerly and The Lifted Brow and been shortlisted in the 2013 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize and Thomas Shapcott Prize. Her debut poetry collection, Salt and Bone, is out now through Walleah Press.@zenfrost
Image: Vernon Swanepoel
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