Old Roads, New Stories: A Literary Series
Why We Have Chickens
Not because they’re sexy.
But they sure do a good job
of luring the foxes: nose-first
and slender
with a streak of orange attitude, a spark;
they show us how to come out of hiding.
What are those teeth for? Biting.
And that tail? To say yesterday
is coming up behind you;
it’ll steal away now
if you don’t act quick,
so be quick.
Everywhere
the air is waiting,
and the night
can hear its own heartbeat.
Time now to bring things together, feathers
flying… new snow on the ground.
Rob Carney’s new book Facts and Figures is available from Hoot ‘n’ Waddle. Previous books include The Book of Sharks and 88 Maps. His first collection of creative nonfiction, Accidental Gardens, is forthcoming from Stormbird Press.Read Rob Carney’s Letter to America in Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy, published by Terrain.org and Trinity University Press.
Read poetry by Rob Carney appearing in Terrain.org: 6th Annual Contest Finalist, 4th Annual Contest Winner, and Issue 30. And listen to an interview on Montana Public Radio about The Book of Sharks.
Header photo by Marcin Perkowski, courtesy Shutterstock.
