full moon
pulls on tides
unsettles minds
defecate, aerate
wilding unleashed
loups-garous emerge
mutilate, feast
boost nascent growth
night crawlers
writhe through remains
revert stiffs to dust
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JL Huffman is a retired Trauma Surgeon/ICU doctor with three published poetry books Almanac: The Four Seasons (2020), Family Treasons (2021), and Voyage: Vista and Verse (2022). Individual poems have appeared in The Pharos, Asahi Haikuist Network, Haiku Dialogue, Poetry Pea, Cold Moon Journal, The Pan Haiku Review, Meat for Tea: The Valley Review, Paddler Press, and others.
Website jlhuffman.com; Twitter @JoanHuffmanMD