Allendorf, Greg

The Pigs

1. piss the petals off the mallows in the meadow;
2. They take the garden as their wallow.
3. They disappear in the silo’s shadow. They glower,
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5. their faces silver platters in the moon’s
6. uneasy amnesty. They shiver
7. in pleasure as rare earth slicks their trotters.
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9. Their flesh is as readily frozen as water.
10. They gleam in their argyric fullness
11. and pose for the picture.
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13. They’re made to nose the earth for truffles
14. to be served to a banker. Their asses
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16. sag like widow’s weeds.
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18. Bad omens each, their eyelashes beat fastest
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20. and hearts flutter loudest in foretaste of carnage.
21. Their shrieks strike cold night air like baby’s breath:
22. sharp, white, brittle, unstoppable flowers.