Heat Of The Hunt (rev)

blood-rich heat of the
hunt hunches down deep
beneath rank bowels
of bare bones belief

naive instinct steers in
instance-sensed challenges –
seeks reflex scent of fear
of quarries’ piss-release

sniffs air – avid eyes peer
in greedy need for flesh
rent and blood spilled by
rending teeth – for howl

and cheer of the kill
where corpse lies bent
beneath – where evolution
begins and ends
© 21 August 2007, I.D. Carswell