Heath, Gregory

Pig

1. I thought my brothers deserved it.
2. House of straw! House of wood!
3. When they came banging
4. on my good strong door,
5. I said No.
6.  
7. I thought Your fault, not mine;
8. I got myself a beer,
9. turned up the telly when
10. the squealing started.
11.  
12. But later that night
13. there were voices saying:
14. What sort of an animal are you?
15.  
16. And what about that wolf?
17.  
18. They said:
19. Maybe there’s more than one kind of wolf.
20. They said:
21. Maybe we summon our own wolves.
22.  
23. And the more I tried
24. to ignore them, the
25. louder they got until
26. I couldn’t stand it and
27.  
28. when I shut my eyes
29. to make them stop
30.  
31. I saw my wolf,
32. picking his way through the darkness,
33. stopping only to show
34. the moon his teeth,
35. and to sniff at the air for pig.