Hi Mark,
Many thanks! I'm always interested to know how people read my poems, and you're the first to do so for this poem. I like your reading of this. I'd actually seen the close as a culmination of the onlookers' speculation. Has has achieved liberation or not? In the end they decide they want what he's got, and so they hang around the wolf-thing looking tasty -- hoping to be eaten, knowing it'll be painful/messy. I hadn't seen the close could be read the way you did, but I do now, and I like that that reading too.
best,
Matt
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