Tuesday, 9. November 2010 22:35
"Isolation at Lake Oneida" by marlowe
you can stop
eat a snack unpack
your multiple containers
their contents
preserved slightly
below room temperature
and watch
the storm cross
this lake its waves
cresting past the surge wall
the picnic table
slightly off the path
asks you to sit stare
while nature refuses
to relent while others
walk by and turn
their collars up
Monday, 25. October 2010 19:30
"Sheep #1" by marlowe
Only the uninitiated, the naïve,
or the foolish claim
that sheep are docile creatures, blissful
in their domesticated ignorance,
unaware of a life beyond this field.
Oh, herding sheep is like herding cats.
Have you ever seen a shepherd with one collie?
Sheep will always escape
when given the chance, truly believing
grass tastes better from the neighbor’s yard.
And when cornered, about to be sheared,
a ram will toss you as though you were a gnat,
especially when you have him by the horns.
Like wolves, or any other wild animal
disturbed during dinner, sheep
will run you down, chase you
the full length of the pasture
until you hop the fence, panicked,
unable to look back at what could have been.
