THE MUSEYou owe me. Pay up. According to my accounts, you have...
CASUAL FRIENDSend lies to the people listed below....
THE AWARDS COMMITTEEThis is to notify you that--but what's the use?...
THE WISEThe world could fall to pieces with no notice....
UNCLE ALA chicken is a touchy creature....
THE OTHERSHere where we live the lines are down and the surprises build into snowbanks...
DANNYDusty Clinton Township kids making paper roosters and snowball...
SAMUEL RENSBERGER I am your grandfather's grandfather and through my wakeless sleep I dream...
OLD NEIGHBOREast across low muddy fields and behind the screening trees you can see...
THE WORM COUNCILWe call your attention to worms. Though sweeping ice age disaster...
THE HERONI flew in down by the round deep pond behind your house...
WITNESSI saw the largest moon ever rise huge bright yellow, sailing where it cared to...
GNAW
I may have made a mistake here,
drifting into this area of sky high trees.
Way up above, a giant hawk tangles
with a cloud. The cloud loses,
struck to earth. Half a day ago
I left my homey clearing.
The farther I go, the stranger it is--
just now a mouse like a bear
made a flurry in the brush.
The trees get bigger and bigger,
the air clearer and more desperate for my lungs.
Out of nervousness, I stop to chew
on the roots of a tree to large
to walk around.