Limp on the cliff-edge,
its life breath gone,
her body is welcome carrion
and the griffons
clean her bones
35,000 years ago
her forebear devoured a griffon,
gouged three holes
in its hollow wing,
blew
Lee Nash lives in France and freelances as an editor and proofreader. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in print and online journals in the UK, the US and France including Ambit, Angle, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Mezzo Cammin, Orbis, Poetry Salzburg Review, Presence, Sentinel Literary Quarterly, The Interpreter's House, The Lake and The World Haiku Review.