There once was a boy
who saw a fearsome wolf
he told everyone
he saw a fearsome wolf
everyone told the boy he was confused
by the rhythm of the red fox
a second wolf joined the first
the boy told everyone
wolves stalk him
from the first sliver of light
to the dimming of the sun
everyone told the boy
old wives walked mother geese
so his imagination
could run, run, run
a third wolf makes a pack
and the boy lay wolfstruck
on the centrefold
of a cobble-corked road
and everyone said
why didn’t he tell us sooner
why didn’t he say it louder
we would have helped
About the Author
Sam Alex is a Canadian writer whose work has been published in various online and print journals over the past fifteen years. Her work has most recently appeared in The Solitude Diaries, Sardine Can Collective, and in the Trash Cat Lit short story anthology: What Comes to Light.
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