hue and cry

the dogs well up and the dogs are here
not for a sport they have put down the fox
he is the prime minister and where the air is darkened with the falconer’s fist
let there be prey in plenty
not mere toys on a string

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Christopher Mulrooney is the author of Grimaldi (Fowlpox Press) and jamboree (Turf Lane Press). His work has recently appeared in Black Mirror Magazine, Cartagena, Mused, Hart House Review and Pretty Owl Poetry.