I am waiting
for the foot to slide,
for the heart to seize,
for the leaping sinews to go slack,
for the fight to the death to be fought to the death…

—Edwin Morgan, “Hyena”
Published in Centenary Selected Poems, Carcanet 2020

Happy #InternationalHyenaDay !

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https://scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/hyena/