Photograph Of Spotted Elk
Who is this man
pulse crunching cross my pillow
I hear him in the snow, right ear-side
in the stupor-stalked night.
Whose half-hearted keffel's desertion
in the dark digresses.
A frozen flag,
in black and white,
held spartan wrist – blank question mark –
of pixillated winter face.
keffel - an old or inferior horse
‘Photograph of Spotted Elk’ from The Last Wolf of Scotland © MacGillivray. Reprinted by kind permission of the author and Pighog, 2013.
Who is this man
pulse crunching cross my pillow
I hear him in the snow, right ear-side
in the stupor-stalked night.
Whose half-hearted keffel's desertion
in the dark digresses.
A frozen flag,
in black and white,
held spartan wrist – blank question mark –
of pixillated winter face.
keffel - an old or inferior horse
‘Photograph of Spotted Elk’ from The Last Wolf of Scotland © MacGillivray. Reprinted by kind permission of the author and Pighog, 2013.
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