Cadaver Dogs - Lividity

Somewhere unknown

Under soil and earth

Her body waits

The story to tell

Resultless efforts

Call the hounds of death

The scent decayed like flesh

Sun baked soil

Putrefaction drenched

Create vegetation

The sick cycle of life/death

Through feet of earth

Death attracts

Unearth the dead

Crusted deep

The newly placed artifact

Carefully exposed

Beyond recognition

A mother’s fear revealed

Appendages no longer bound by muscle and skin

Matted, blood dried hair

Missing flesh reveals bone

Hidden chapters to the still unfolding story

The canine macabre

Salivating, rotting meat arousing

In the burning sun

Her body wafts

The story begins