Goya’s Rabbit

A rabbit
drawn by Goya
is digging through the walls
of a house of sand.

Those incisors suggest
the rabbit longs for blood —
an unnatural diet compelled,
perhaps, by the depiction.

Art comes alive,
and what comes
from that goes to new places,
ravenous for the unexpected.

It is coming for you.
Don’t assume
you’ll offer it a carrot
and it will then revert

to its original nature.
A rabbit can be a carnivore
when allowed to be.  Creation
didn’t stop at the end of a week.