Lily Beaumont

Wile E. Coyote Brandishing a Gun

Because you’d watched your fur become
redundant
and your claws fracture
into opposable joints, you untamed
yourself
on whips
of desolate fence, on poisons planted hopefully
as roses, and found
a weapon starved spare as your
paw prints.

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Lily Beaumont’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in publications including Prolit, Star 82 Review, Crow & Cross Keys and Phantom Kangaroo. She has an MA in English from Brandeis University and currently lives in Central Texas, where she works as a curriculum/study guide developer and editor.