Wild Pigs Will Hunt You Down

orris root
overrides
paludal fever
justification for
perfidy spread wide
unwholesome marsh
fever,

breach of faith
(parenthesis) as
in printing, sforzando
(in music) forced with
emphasis, strigose, short,
stiff hairs like the javelina,

wild pigs
will hunt you
down, collared
peccary new world
pig and old world religion,
tusk, defending against the
predator, tusk, scent glands,

I smell
you, stink,
not perfume,
pungent odor
releases Truth,
musk hog, I must
defend myself, Evolution,
fossil records, Antarctica,
Isthmus of Panama, your
extinction.

Copyright Ms. Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist