Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Stag photographed with wire wrapped around antlers” by Tolu Oloruntoba.

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Stag photographed with wire wrapped around antlers

By Tolu Oloruntoba

Your modern crown of green fence

does make you larger than you were.

I too, would like to wear my confinement

as antlerpiece, to have discovered

the rutting of the green of forest and

the eternity of hydrocarbons, to be

thus followed by worshipful watchers

as I anoint and lift up the twisted child

that must inherit all earth. Eido. Lo. Ecce!

Note: Poem title is from Bullock, C. (2024, October 11). Stag photographed with wire wrapped around antlers. BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg901kj2neo

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Copyright © Tolu Oloruntoba

Previously published in Feud(al), 2024.

Tolu is a long-lapsed physician based in Calgary, Alberta. His third poetry collection, Unravel, is available now.

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