Dog With Ulna

Charles Springer

Left the house looking
for the dog down
the street the beat cop
waved his gun a little
red girl hiding
inside her poodle
skirt with windup tail
needling a compass
stopped on east and
stepped on toes, head
west young pup
found in ice atop
mount cannibal.

© Charles Springer

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Charles Springer has degrees in anthropology and is an award-winning painter. A Pushcart Prize nominee, he is published in small presses. He writes from his family homestead in northern Pennsylvania.