Hunger

Evan Martinez

There remains the mystery of how the pupil devours so much bastard beauty. (from “The Rewilding” by Ada Limón)

Brief is the fullness
of a creature without abandon

& the maw is a poem
without punctuation.

The groundhogs in my backyard
eat cat food we leave for cats
& I’m glad
they love themselves
enough to rise to the occasion
of massacre. Anthropocene &

It’s a curse to live without edges
and be borderless
in an insatiable world.