Lycanthropy (a glosa)

as he and the dog plod, side by side, out of the city

into cityless time—the reliquary forest still cached

with ancestral smells, where the reviving man and

would-be wolf (loping ahead, nose low, feverishly

(from Run With Her by Steven Heighton)

The Honourable British East India Company men

are vulnerable to silver - Sir Thomas Roe 

decides that the future lay across the ocean,

as he and his dog plod, side by side, out of the cities

of the Genteelest of Britains into untamed land.

The transformation of the British man

occurs the minute he invades on horseback, from timeless cities

into cityless time—the reliquary forest still cached

with sacred peace—he descends his white horse

and eats it, falls to all fours, and writhes with bloodthirst

bent on swallowing every drop of incense from land laden

with ancestral smells, where the reviving man and

native woman lose the next three hundred years to a

would-be wolf - loping ahead, nose low, feverish.