This World

Are you done screaming about the gays yet?

A trout just jumped out of the river.

I’ll make lunch in a minute

and we can eat it out here in the yard.

Yes I know it’s a serious issue.

Did you see that baldie swoop down

just now, over there?

There he goes again.

I can tell you’re sick over this,

but, my, what a sky today.

Across the river in the woods, deer--

three calves with their mother.

Corporations make me angry, too.

I wonder how cold the water is.

Let’s dip a toe in.

Let’s throw rocks.

And the poor and health insurance.

What do you want

for lunch? I have a cantaloupe

and a block of pecorino.

Isn’t it all going to hell?

I don’t know. Watch

your step going inside,

there’s broken glass around here.