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Macbeth 2.0
By Patrick Moran
In the best of all possible worlds
another world waits like a murderer in
the woods, but the woods cannot
contain the murderer any better than
the lonely field can hide the
murderer’s footprints. What makes
him a murderer in the woods is as
mysterious as the woods themselves.
What makes the field a field of muddy
clues remains to be seen. What makes
a lonely field a terrifyingly strange
place is that you are the victim & the
villain & neither of you can remember
your lines.
Patrick Moran is the author of five books of poetry and the editor of an anthology of Scottish poetry. He teaches creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
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