Orkney Unicorn Quest

West Wynd

Our mother doesn’t seem to even notice us anymore she spends her days in the forest with Grummore and Pelinore and they’re hunting for the magic unicorn we haven’t served at supper for a week and we’re so bored we’re pestering Saint Toirdelbach or being totally ignored while she’s hunting for the magic unicorn Saint Toirdelbach says we need a virgin to lure the beast we’ll bring him home to mother and won’t she be so pleased so we’re hunting for the magic unicorn
this kitchen maid looks like a virgin she should do just fine drag her by the hair no matter how much she may cry bring the boar spears play the game she’ll run if she’s set free the only way to keep her here is tie her to a tree let’s hide behind these bushes here and await the unicorn until he bows to Meg and she can grab him by the horn
carrying a beauty with him holding spellbound all beholders unicorn enters the clearing on his hooves of silver circled with such pensive darkness tragic eyes so full of sorrow bowing down before the maiden beseeching her for kindness
with a choking noise from Agravane we spring the deadly trap brandishing his boar spear and squealing as he jabbed hot red blood coats blue white horse hair as Gareth cries out don’t the unicorn kicks his hind legs out when pierced at fifth rib bone before the brothers can stop the slaughter this magic beast has bled last to exit from the bushes Gaheris says it’s dead
the unicorn is dead and we each loved it in our own way for it’s innocence and beauty which now fill our hearts with hate the guilt and shame of defiling the magic mythic horse we vent upon the body that we’ve turned completely gross our gralloch failed intestines cut divine mane caked in blood just bring the head back to our mom so she’ll tell us that we’re good
the muddy bloody heather mangled exhibit we’ve dragged home the eyes are ruined flesh is bruised separating from the bone this magic creature’s majestic glory propped upon a garden stone our mother saw and scolded us what did we do wrong
what did we do wrong?