The Peat Warriors Poem by Leslie Philibert

The Peat Warriors



Dressed in turf,
grinning with bronze teeth,
eaters of skull,
burners of abbeys

Cold with the blood
of heavy horses,
black-boned and wolf-eyed, as

senseless as a winter tide
cutting the throated air
of stolen girls, a Northern wind

of ill intention,
the rained crowd of dark shapes
that bangs the runed drums.

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