Obsidian melts off my glinting fangs
as cosmic rivers gleam down rippling spines.
I lurch out toward the rolling emerald pastures,
brush struck naked under the cut of my tail.
Goats, unaware, feed off the land below.
Crickets silence and scatter as my claws crunch
the dry leaves, like brittle, crackling bones licked dry
by smelting flames.
Closer now.
A bubbling odor creeps off my scaly flesh,
filling the desolate earth from the ground
as murmurs stretch louder,
echoes gurgling up in the gut of the valley.
Until
silence.
Tomorrow they will find
punctures buried in the fur caskets
of blood-drained bodies,
my hunger satisfied
for one more night.
© Copyright Samantha Rose 2018
You can catch more of Samantha existing at her blog, Existential Poetry.