Center Fire Poetry
Scott DuRoff's Poetic Musings on Life, Love and Death
  • Poetry Talk
  • The Unrung Bell
  • One Bit of Difference
  • Some Time to Kill
  • Old Stones
  • Home
  • Slipping Away
  • Mockingbird
  • Seeds
  • Barstools
  • Easy Grace
  • Mineral Man
  • The Skinny Branches
  • Why Not?
  • The Priestess
  • Autumn
  • For Now and Forever
  • Reliable Foundations
  • The Right To Folly
  • A New Recruit
  • Yes!
  • All The Angles
  • Happy Fourth Of July
  • The Gravity of Being
  • My Love
  • Make The Trade
  • The Horns of the Minotaur
  • Walking Away
  • Anywhere But Here
  • Meat Dance
Picture
Meat Dance

Nostrils flared wide
Stomping hooves
The bull elk shakes
His impossibly giant antlers

His harem flows
Around him like
The white water cascades
Of a jealous river

I greet him
Arms spread wide
Antlers and rattle in hand
Respect and admiration
Filling my heart

Self fullness radiates
From him as a birthright
Reflecting back to me
My own beauty, vanity
and hubris

And it is in the eyes
Of the old female elk
That I see the knowledge
Of the wheel of life

The meat dance that
Takes us all in the end
Leaving us praying
That the vultures

Those Lords of Death
Will pick clean our bones
So that we may pass
Through the portal

That patiently awaits. 


Scott DuRoff 10/2014


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