Artwork © Eric N. Peterson

 

Tiny Beast

Such a tiny
beast
surrounded by
monsters,
it survives
the only way
it knows how.
Carried from
giant host
to giant host,
it gains
in numbers,
invisible
to the eye,
their lives
dependent upon
the monsters’
monstrous
arrogance,
a fatal flaw,
that bellows
at the idea
that something
so small
could ever
defeat
something
so great.

 

Kurt Newton’s poetry has appeared in Oddball Magazine, Unlikely Stories Mark V, Hobo Camp Review, The Wild Word, Cajun Mutt Press and Alien Buddha Zine. His latest poetry collection, Nazi Swastika Bikini Wax Illuminati, was published last year by Alien Buddha Press.

Eric N. Peterson is from Atlanta, Ga. He’s been drawing cartoons all his life. He leans towards the absurd, imaginative, and the surreal, as that’s where all the flavor is.