“Werewolf” by Bianca Spriggs

I’m either a werewolf or I’m crazy, but I’m not boring
– Anonymous Graffiti, Ohio University

At the climax of a lunar cycle,
a poem stirs,
dark tempest in my chest.

It cracks my ribs to get out.

Aroused, the poem is
certain it smells blood,
grows teeth and hunkers over
paper like meat.

The poem flees my fingers,
desperate to hold it,
and snaps at shadows
cast like dice by the moon.

I do not bother arming myself
with anything plated in silver.

Once it runs loose,
there is no accounting
for every howl and bite.

There is no accounting
for every person it will turn.

-Bianca Spriggs,
How Swallowtails Become Dragons
(Accents Publishing)

Affrilachian Poet and Cave Canem Fellow Bianca Spriggs is a freelance instructor of composition, literature, and creative writing. She holds degrees fromTransylvania University and the University of Wisconsin. She is a Kentucky Humanities Council Lecturer and the creator and programmer of the Wild Women of Poetry Slam (formerly the Gypsy Poetry Slam) featured annually at theKentucky Women Writers Conference. Heralded as “the new standard bearer for the Affrilachian Poets” by founding member Frank X Walker, Bianca is the author of Kaffir Lily (Wind Publications) and her work may also be found in the anthologies New Growth: Recent Kentucky Writings and America! What’s My Name? and the journals Union Station Magazine, Appalachian Heritage Magazine, and others.

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