Lindsay McLeod

Featherweight

The blood coats my hands again
sticky like pomegranate juice.

I wonder casually in its examination
if survival has always been this way

having reached these lands so far
from the Priest’s songs and yet,

I hear whispered warnings from Anubis
the way my heart grows heavy with this.

Lindsay McLeod’s writing has won a few awards and been published all over the place, most recently in THE HUMAN WRITERS, MENISCUS, EPHEMERAL ELEGIES, TIPTON POETRY, BOOK of MATCHES, SNAKESKIN, PULSEBEAT and THE MARTELLO. Lindsay lives with his cattle dog, down the Port in South Australia.