Out in the field I see an elk
\nI see waving bleached stalks trying to hold the sun
\nI see ragged paper bags, condoms, chewed gum<\/p>\n
I awake in the field and see an elk running
\nLong heavy muscles, rousing heat
\nSplit-heart hoof prints buried in mud<\/p>\n
In the field I find sick bottles and arrowheads
\nI see an elk rub antlers across a chokecherry tree
\nThunderheads mar my face with shadows<\/p>\n
As winter twists her fingers around my breasts
\nAnd in the new hair between my legs
\nI find nests of straw held together by blood<\/p>\n
I hear the elk bellow for sex, his harems gyrating
\nDistended black mountains crowd the distance
\nAnd crippled aspens hide their urgent rutting<\/p>\n
Out in the field I see an elk nurse her young
\nCalming them with cold air and milk
\nI turn away to strip corn from careful husks<\/p>\n
At midnight I see the herd of elk fleeing
\nI aim and murder every goddamned elk I find
\nI flay young bucks, punish cows, breed maggots<\/p>\n
I chew meat for ages, erect piles of bones
\nI find a 1988 Buick LeSabre out in the field
\nGnawed by rust, captive to blank-eyed rodents<\/p>\n
I burrow inside its wounded frame
\nIt is time to rest, study how the moon
\nCrawls across the mountains<\/p>\n
Taste salt in the encroaching dawn
\nHatch a plan to assure survival
\nOut in the field, alone, at night<\/p>\n
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