A Green Leaf
A green leaf of a Dutch elm
looks nothing like a safety pin.
A branch of the blue spruce
out my window, a bristled branch
looks like a cylinder brush.
The closed pin holds up a diaper.
The leaf sways in the wind,
on a branch above a river
moving on, like hands of a clock.
Squeak
They all get together and howl
over something out the window.
He squeaks. It drives me nuts!
That little terrier. Even if one
isn’t by the window, but somewhere
else, he or she hears the howling
and joins in, in this poem about
inside dogs. Is your dog an inside
dog or an outside dog? Oh,
you don’t have a dog, or a cat.
Only love, all that love inside
for one someone or something.
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Peter Mladinic‘s most recent book of poems, The Homesick Mortician, is available from BlazeVOX books. An animal rights advocate, he lives in Hobbs, New Mexico, United States.
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