The Feast

on a sunny meadow in July

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With eyes agape,
woodland critters observe the scene
in sunny meadow that was their home.

A buzzing swarm
of black horseflies gorge themselves
on the blood of dismembered bodies.

As they indulge,
they become prey to hungry lizards
skittering among the mounds of rotting flesh.

In summer heat,
the putrid stench attracts carrion crows,
who pluck eyeballs like juicy Catawba grapes.

With eyes agape,
woodland critters observe the feast
in meadow outside a town named Gettysburg.




15 lines of Free Verse poetry