["C'est un acte d'une barbarie absolue"]

"Cest un acte d'une barbarie absolue,"

As the wolf attacks, the children run

"douzaine morte," triste —

Fierce and flaming sapphire flooding

the face of Marianne.

Penetration in cold

blood;

white cloth scattered

along the chipped sidewalk.

Liquide rouge

forever staining through the heart,

eternally beating through the Centre.

*This original poem was published in print in the 2016 edition of Bowling Green State University's national undergraduate literary journal, Prairie Margins.