After Beowulf by Nicole Markotić

Author:Nicole Markotić
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Coach House Books

mesh girdle and hand-forged corselet

that no spear may slash

brightly engraved breastplate

that no knife may nick

gold helmet, crowned with proud boar effigies

that no blade may bite

and no hell-fingers may hook.

[etched in

poison]

Now

to test the squirmy waters

with UnSense’s sword Hrunting

(one of those guys who names his ‘sword’), blotted

with dried blood, a rune-chiselled

sword that won’t fail any hand

(except applesauce UnSense, who

never dips his own head, never nosedives

his own self into water ambush, but

will lend a pal his Hrunting:

brandish this sword and you’ll ain’t never sink).

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