wounded in the woods

you know the symbols
worshipped in intimate
moments
& these wilds
inhabited by the green
man, fallen into discard.

later, myth makers activated
your experimental spirit –
eliminate all
but the model
outlaw, who fled to the witch’s
house, wounded in the woods.

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Source Texts:
‘True Love’ by Isaac Asimov, in The Complete Robot
‘Robin of Loxley’ in Strange South Yorkshire by David Clarke