Sheep’s death
Dog,
It is beginning
Upshot of a sheep’s death: dog
Tie a lamb around her neck and let it rot
My tongue runs out to the yard
The vowel clears
O
It is not beginning
Dog’s shot
Sheep’s living
Vowel doesn’t clear
Hannah Azar Strauss is an artist and writer based in Montréal. She has recent or forthcoming writing in The Capilano Review, Discount Guillotine, Public Parking, and Ballast Journal.