living/will

take these aching, eating

animals all touch

hunger & mud lust shameless

astonishment, saying

without second thought


              my darling
              SWINE
!
              even incandescent

Kristin Lueke is a Chicana poet living in northern New Mexico. She is the author of the chapbook (in)different math (Dancing Girl Press). Her work's appeared in Sixth Finch, Wildness, HAD, Maudlin House, Frozen Sea, and elsewhere. She writes at www.theanimaleats.com.