Poetry Annual 1998 O Y S T E R   B O Y   R E V I E W   [ 8 ]
  P O E M   / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 /
M. A. Roberts
D O I N G   W / O U T
The fat man and I watch four dogs
in the neighbor's yard try to

jump a bitch who's clearly teasing
and playing hard to get as a

murder of crows turn an already
gray and quiet sky into a scream of black

When caws are distant
the big dog gets her, while we—

the other dogs—watch and squirm
at the spectacle, clinch fists, remember

 
°   °   °
» Oyster Boy Review 8 «