At the Call of the Great Wood
alone in a forest green desert
even ruined hunting lodge long
lost or stump of foundation of
was clearing once one crabapple
sign of tending shouts aloud to
test even when alone no woman
there to hear will be wrong and
is so voice in head as if her
tells will tear him apart for
what just saidthought and to
take mind off imagines is lost
imagines foot will step what is
like fallen log will rise grip throat
sees where lightning smear has blacked
tree sees face in from side lips
hers forest girl and comes round
trunk is blackgape mouth redgold
fungus tongue will reach to lick
will creaksweet voice as female
god demand gimme light will see
taller than trees if could see
up through leafcanopy thunder
lizard advance spins head will
feverish crushbreak all will fall
crush him smiles is God's Iller is
all game knows x not here safe way
to be afraid can see sun air way out
and right at edge turns back much deeper
into is before go just time to mark was
is duty as lick face on mucky
windowfuckingpane in steam a child
to leave here something will let
nextcomer have same pleasured dose
between all tangle mixedweed maze
pretend what eyes lurk in holes of
roots what teeth what huge breasts
watch well judge will tear head off
body how mothers in old stories do
lie still in mounds ivied new slag
of old pits just up there past tree
fell makes vertical flat bit another down
old tomb shape of stone man is just
right place and lucky has knife with
and carves slow into rot bark plough
mark furrows scurry away of little
anyeverythings too many legs no names
he knows "I woz not eya bastard nor
were you" and smiles and leaves alone
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