Two Women in Sunbonnets
(May 2/06)
A blue whale sky, a cultured woman in a sunbonnet dragging a dog on a leash, a car with no wheels and a buckled engine cover. A cat with no legs but two tails and a second woman in a sunbonnet with two dogs, one on a leash the other muzzled with boxing twine, a tarpaper trashcan with polymer windows through which an old woman gazes into the gaze. And I sit in the cower of my thoughts thinking things that need never be thought, a hazard of thoughts.
A Grievous Injustice
a furrow rat shifted beneath the porch
I caught the rope of it’s tail
with the stick I used for killing mice and hornets
I spate its neck like a heel of dry bread
and with the truck of my hands
dug a grave in the dirt beside my father’s car
(May 2/06)
A blue whale sky, a cultured woman in a sunbonnet dragging a dog on a leash, a car with no wheels and a buckled engine cover. A cat with no legs but two tails and a second woman in a sunbonnet with two dogs, one on a leash the other muzzled with boxing twine, a tarpaper trashcan with polymer windows through which an old woman gazes into the gaze. And I sit in the cower of my thoughts thinking things that need never be thought, a hazard of thoughts.
A Grievous Injustice
a furrow rat shifted beneath the porch
I caught the rope of it’s tail
with the stick I used for killing mice and hornets
I spate its neck like a heel of dry bread
and with the truck of my hands
dug a grave in the dirt beside my father’s car
