Animal Appetite

In the dream a cougar

a street gray blotted

suburban light.

Alone strange

watercolor

bricks of hunger

in her gut

sifted fog death’s mute

taunts, hidden shrieks and

bullets hunting nighttime’s cover.

Shivered human

wanting

wonders, hoping

smitten lover

stumbling

drunken

housewards,

to taste that flesh, then rip into….