The Dragon

Here's a little something I wrote about a dragon. Just your everyday dragon. Dragons are funky.

The Dragon

Perhaps it would be safer to be with the dragon

battering on, a broiling cloud,

while its muscular eye juts out

swivelling to pinpoint bloodful meals.

But having clung on long enough,

dodging roaring columns of purple flame,

thighs gripping and slipping from its scaly back ,

I drop free

and hurtle to ground.

Landed, I wipe away ash and viscera

and look up

to see the dragon’s torn but mighty wings

creak on. 

© Catherine Lucie, 2013