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On Butchering a Pregnant Feral Goat

Tanya Rucosky Noakes

Our Earth’s peppered with tiny graves.
Under hooves of caribou, camels, cows,
death’s fallen faster than a falcon’s wing
across her green hummocks and shallow pans,
‘til no place is forsaken by loss...

Downwind, goat kids thought they played alone,
below Armageddon’s casual aim.
Nor do the hunters return unmarked,
ritual scars of knowing; her child, our child,
are all the same cast in a careless land.

We do not slip in the first skinning slice
deep through the soft rank fur of her hock
without thought of this world’s carnivory,
more savage, ceaseless than even our own.
Our penance to her is paid with
our own small loved bundles, planted in Earth’s soil.

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of cc&d magazine.
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printed, but you can requesting it
“re-released” through amazon sale
as a 6" x 9" ISBN# book!
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