Watch
I’m paid by the hour
to transcribe principals’ thoughts
on school improvement
while I watch a herd of lionesses
try to take down a water buffalo.
The starving cubs watch the adults
as they embed their claws in the black hide
and blood darkens their fur from lip to throat.
When a threat is made
against her school
the principal says
it will be her face in the paper
if a kid gets hurt on her watch.