Refusing the Hunt
A long-bodied hare
with beetle-bulge eyes,
fluted limbs,
& a stick thin throat
that chokes down stones.
My bones rattle out
click, snap, & shock
into proper formation,
thunder in the space between my knuckles
swaddled in the slimming muscle that remains.
The movement is slow
Bible page thin.
The dry blades.
I think of what I’d kill to satiate this.
Catie Prospero McGuire is a senior English major at SUNY Geneseo with a concentration in creative writing and minors in history and ethics & values in society. She originally hails from New Jersey and her preferred genre is poetry.