Puzzled and challenging
At our fear,
They have wavered, waiting to spring
Ear by ear.
Circuitous their path
Through rivers of mud,
Avoiding our spilt wrath
Like blood.
Laughter may suffice
To avert the pack—
Fanged, snapping, twice
Turned, but never turned back.
From: Riggs, Lynn, ‘The Wolves’ in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, Volume XXXII, Number V, August 1928, p. 262.
(https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=18071)
Date: 1928
By: Rollie Lynn Riggs (1899-1954)
From Troubles of The World 
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