This piece actually came from a in-class writing assignment. It’s an attempt to lean into the iambic meter in poetry. Another goal here was to use references that I had wanted to play with: Otto Rahn, The Holy Grail, Genene Jones, Peter Pan. These were people and items that I knew of, and I wanted to see if I could work them into a poem. Since using these references was one of the goals, the audience in my mind for this poem was not a general one. The piece assumes that the reader is aware of what the references mean, and does not attempt to explain the connections. The target genre was political poetry, so the narrator of this piece is a porcupine.