Eskimo Wolf Trap
︎︎︎ Jack Ludkey
︎ July 8, 2025
Unfortunate for you my love
Is all I have left after the fat
Was cut the creaky bones
Were revealed and there
Was naught to cut
For the blade had no riblets
To catch in bone
And the blade was slick
With fat
I had been a dirty secret for much of my life
Hiding in my lovers basement
As her mother checked
The sheets for flecks of blood
Speaking easy
Covering my mouth
In fear of flecking spit
On my new friend
When I speak
I only speak for you
My love
My body is unclaimed
And the west
Spans on and on and on
Is all I have left after the fat
Was cut the creaky bones
Were revealed and there
Was naught to cut
For the blade had no riblets
To catch in bone
And the blade was slick
With fat
I had been a dirty secret for much of my life
Hiding in my lovers basement
As her mother checked
The sheets for flecks of blood
Speaking easy
Covering my mouth
In fear of flecking spit
On my new friend
When I speak
I only speak for you
My love
My body is unclaimed
And the west
Spans on and on and on
Jack Ludkey is a writer, director, and poet based in New York City, originally from Madison, Wisconsin.
Also by Jack: Future wife
Also by Jack: Future wife