The Game is Afoot

By Jessica Lake

No one’s life is a story.

Rather it is the game afoot.

The hounds let slipped—

Agile and indefatigable.

Each life a tale to tell—

They surge and scuffle for the lead

One collides with another,

Disturbing the chase’s order

Until one’s lips, teeth, jaws

Surround and crush the prey

And tears it asunder

And the hounds

And hunt are done.