Eat or We Both Starve

By Cindy Rinne

Extensive sanctuary system
littered with whalebones,
self adhesive. Cheetah’s breath
could meet my own? Tenth life
for a big cat.

A world of nomads hear
music. Flora is essential as treasure
to her heirs. The illustrated woman
still scans the horizon
for enemies.

Confident that the melting
sea does not have lunch
for a month