Lucy Alexander #55 Shingleback

Dragon story merged

come real

not flame

a tongue of night

eyes rip into light

under each scale

a bone

under each bone

bitter blood

slides exoskeleton

across the stones singing:

eat me and you will die

my head will wedge your throat

my tail cram your dreams

full of hollowness

I will burrow

into your blood

and crowd out the

red with my own

black furrows

then you will know

the fury of my reptile self;

just be patient while I sleep.