
Scrubby, mangy,
munching,
fur enraptured face
How much like this
creature am I
Forever keeping grasses
and progress at bay
as I rove, making bleating
calls and tasting morning.

“Get My Goat” was printed in Tracks, No. 9 of Inwood Indiana. Pick up the paperback from Prolific Press; the stories and poems published online are free to read here.
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