Invitation to a Recessive Gene

Mary di Michele
From:   Debriefing the Rose: Poems. (House of Anansi, 1998).

In Latin blood legend traces the wolf.
In us instinct is not extinct, it's latent.
When the moon is full, the wolf.
Start running.

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