After learning about the maternal instincts of seals, I took to listing postpartum offensives
a hen pecks a king cobra
a wildebeest confronts a cheetah
five lions are attacked by a ballistic giraffe
a monitor lizard suffers a wild pig bite
a Russian naval vessel is capsized by a walrus
a goat head-butts a wolf down a mountainside
a hyena holds off seventeen wild dogs
a black mamba is wrestled by a rabbit
and a usually polite and apologetic woman takes on twelve teenage boys on the Mississippi Drifter at the waterpark
Clare Currie is a poet and playwright, living in Great Yarmouth. She is a former Peterborough Poet Laureate and a founding member of Syntax Poetry Festival. She has written for Eastern Angles, Paines Plough and is one of the 2024 HighTide Writers Group. Her work often centres on the visceral nature of being embodied as female. X: @ClareHCurrie Website: https://clarecurrie.co.uk/