I.
For a week Pooh Bear ate bran
instead of honey. He grew lean
and ground his new-found claws
on concrete. He gargled with
salt water every night, and again
on Thursdays at three.
He dined the second week on
swiss cheese, washed down
with strong black tea,
tannic and hot, grumbling
and humbling
and snapping his fingers to Louis
Armstrong.
On the third week,
he packed a knapsack
with Pecan Sandies and hiked
the Matterhorn, plodding till the air
was thin and the planets close
as moths. Then he stopped,
and munched, and spoke -
and the voice he used
was Tom's.
II. Haiku
Pumice stones sand heels
Tom in the Dry Tortugas
Heals sand by speaking
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