by Penelope Scambly Schott
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| Graphic from Walls of the Wild. |
leaps on black legs
across thawing mud,
her bearded muzzle
iced with dirt. Oh, joy,
gusto of dogfulness.
Don’t discuss politics
or the foolhardiness
of those who rule us.
In my next life, I’ll roll
in the spiral cow pies
to praise the new day.
Penelope Scambly Schott is a past recipient of the Oregon Book Award for Poetry. Her newest book is On Dufur Hill, poems about the cycle of the year in a small wheat-growing town.
