Caught Antlers

by

Richard G. Beyer

Hung in this tangle

of branches and limbs

I am the trapped stag

struggling, barking

eyes blown wide

with the fatal terror

of my entanglement.

A hungering wolf

you close in

on my vulnerable loins

ready to hamstring

to devour my flesh

in slow motion scenes

of free flowing blood

frenzied screaming

ravaging and ripping

the vivid tearing

the guttural growl

your slobbering mouth

my dark final ecstasy.

© Richard G Beyer

Published in the online E-Zine,

SYDNEY MOSAIC, Australia, 2003.