the first time i ever saw
'Les Lupins' by Maurice Sand
the etching from 1853:
in the San Antonio Public Library
George Washington Carver Branch
I lay on the carpet
scanning the illustrations
in Georgess McHargue
Meet the Werewolf, Lippincott
Philadephia and New York
1976
page 8, age 11
eight or nine lanky creatures
on their hind legs, leaning on a desolate wall
in small groups (though one stood by himself)
in the moonlight
beneath it the caption
'a nighttime gathering of French werewolves'
i myself was eight or nine:
i have never been the same
or rather I should say: i remain now
in the moment of that sight
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