Arcing
by Ken Hada


The arc is reality
as far as we know.
The question
is to discern
where you are
in orbit.

The hunter hoses
blood out
of his pickup bed
and for the moment
circles above
vulture-like

though
we might say
he is more hunted
than he knows.






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