Running sprinting antelope
twisting avoiding lion
turning breathing moving eyes
forward around trees over stream antelope
tires
lion leaps claws dig bite—
preyneck toothfulfillment
Shot
Lionheart shattered—
preytrophy egofulfillment
the Antelope remains
Wayne L. Miller lives in Northern New Jersey. His work has been published in Arc Poetry Magazine, Paterson Literary Review, LIPS, Great Falls Anthology, Turtle Island Quarterly, The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow, theEEEL, The Long-Islander (Walt’s Corner), Instigatorzine, and Edison Literary Review. Visit him at: waynelmiller.info
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