Chitra Ganesh, How to Assemble a Flying Car (detail), 2018, linocut on tan BFK Rives. Courtesy of the artist & Durham Press.
My Dog Earl
His forelegs trochee and his rear legs iamb!
I have it all on minicam:
My dog, Earl, at 4:36 a.m.,
Having completed an olfactory exam
Of my brokeback copy of Green Eggs and Ham,
Raises his piebald right-rear ham
To pee, and I admit I am
Startled by the stream: poor Sam-I-Am!
No Boulder Dam,
No midnight Harlem jam,
No Mary’s little lamb,
No thin men of Haddam
Ever let flow ad nauseam—
A patois to match my Earl’s salaam.
His forelegs trochee and his rear legs iamb!
Poetry
Vanished Qilou Building, Bali by Yang Biwei
Translated from the Chinese by Liang Yujing
Poetry
Daniel Bosch is director of the Writing & Publishing program at Walnut Hill, a high school for the arts in Natick, Massachusetts. (updated 7/2009)