Economics

       

This wanting more
of what's hard to get requires

trade-offs and a knack 
for picking stock:

scarcity is everywhere
it roams with choice in packs;

where there's scarcity

and choice there are costs.

Want, long-boned and lean,
hunts alone.

   

Published in Orbis, Winter issue, 2011

http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/index.asp?id=52