RABBIT FOOT

RABBIT FOOT, by Colleen Anderson, read by the author

the clumsy man

a stumbling woman

saw the fleetfooted hare

 

thought to harness

the zephyrs of air

the breath of change

the lagomorph run

 

to escape the pains the world bestows

they used sympathetic magic

imparting pain to be freed

 

each person leaps

into make-believe worlds

speedy transits from situations

hiding form inevitable outcomes

 

the rabbit remembers, misses its paw

the sharp footprint

an indelible claw mark

a touch of blood

 

The rabbit never found it lucky

to experience freedom severed

 

it leaves behind

a sense of guilt

meat tasting gamy

nightmares of the dreamer

of being relentlessly chased

 

 

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Colleen Anderson has a BFA in writing and her poems have been published in such venues as Mirror Dance, Polu Texni, The Future Fire, HWA Poetry Showcase and others. She is a Canada Council and BC Arts Council grant recipient for writing and has performed her work before audiences in the US, UK and Canada. Colleen’s collection, I Dreamed a World, will be published in early 2021. Colleen has also published fiction including the collection A Body of Work, Black Shuck Books.