4


1

Not long after the famine had started
our island split:
Lost
Found

2

'cos I was no boy
I was not missed
hairy wild beast
- To - found-
Tag on my forehead
tiny tail growing
stumbling in hunger
of all the unspoken words

3

-Coward!-
The beetles were wild on my ears
No one likes to be chewed
-Have you tried to?-
I baked my breast with mud and honey
and still, it was to bitter to swallow.

Who are you?
(Arrows from the south)
Grab what you can and come to...

4

...chase the dragon.
That I did right.
Breathing fire at night,
no need to sink the teeth.

As I vanished, the skin was covered in scales,
All fangs, all tough,
glittery golden eyes no one would dare to look at.

I kept my cunt and the heart safe,
under my claws,
soaked,
bloody.
5

If we could find where we belong
there'd be no doubt where we are from.
Lost?
Found?
Where we cannot be, there have been others.

6

I left
filling the cliffs,
cotton-numb
between one place and "the other".
No shame.
Your maps sell the monsters all wrong, dude
We are no more if we don't have to.