This collection delivers mind-blowing poetic visions of the connections between the trivia of our everyday lives and the irrepressible life strategies of organisms. Sneaky sarcasms and biological barbs combine to deflate the hubris of our culture. You won’t know if you should chuckle or rub your chin.
let the doghair gather
let it clog up vacuum filters
we'll celebrate its drifts
nurture its unruly clumps until
this whole house becomes dog
panting and hapless it sniffs the crook
of the cul-de-sac like an unwashed crotch
its double-glazed eyes full of sky
its roof all ears alert to the breeze
its eaves atwitch as the dogwood
in the garden leans in whispers
Squirrel
from each bristling leaf
every tile aquiver
From Doghouse
