Tuesday, February 27, 2024

 I was a mountain man

   In the Finaglio mountains 
   north of Tecumseh
         I trapped wolverines
     Badgers and muskrats
      I drank fermented plum wine
most nights
     that a woman from 
  The Arumsa tribe had made
      She was taught by a French trapper
     a decade ago 
    but she still made it 
       she hated him and I think 
    she killed him using 
     poisonous mushroom
    In his chicken Marsala 
     Which she'd cooked
   with fermented plum wine
she didn't talk much
   but she sure laughed a lot