The meaning of this?

plundered corpses
irreverent flesh

the gold throat of power
capsizes us

ignorant carelessness
this hasty construction

the sight of blood
a wounded deer

dragging its broken hind leg

By Eleanor Jackson

Eleanor Jackson is a Filipino Australian poet, performer, arts producer, cyclist, writer, gal about town, feminist, freewheeler, and friend.

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