tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post5765703044303889533..comments2023-10-28T03:14:44.519-07:00Comments on Calhouns Can(n)ons: Your Sunday PoemNewsstandGreghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04099049885765768069noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-50631376336817630962011-03-01T10:19:41.891-08:002011-03-01T10:19:41.891-08:00Chickens do not fly unless they are game chickens ...Chickens do not fly unless they are game chickens that have been exercised on a see-saw for weeks. It is the game chicken that can fly higher than its opponent that wins the fight. <br /><br />Maybe both the poems are about buzzards or vultures. Makes me think of progressive Marxists.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-7739277205694963962011-02-27T09:14:40.681-08:002011-02-27T09:14:40.681-08:00Ooooh. Chills. Dark and darker. Two great poems. T...Ooooh. Chills. Dark and darker. Two great poems. Thanks Ann. And Alon.Anne R. Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02420000168356370825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-48284640779872583312011-02-27T08:40:29.653-08:002011-02-27T08:40:29.653-08:00Los Osos Backyard
A white seething cluster
Openi...<b>Los Osos Backyard</b><br /><br /><i>A white seething cluster <br />Opening, closing, unfolding. <br />From the killing stump <br />It looks like a flower. <br />A central core, <br />a dark spot in the center, <br />swaying in the still ocean breeze.<br />It parts some; <br />they are fighting over the neck entrails of a departed head. <br />Perhaps I will flap down <br />and scatter them <br />to peck for protein, <br />perhaps not.<br />I am only a chicken myself, <br />Cock o’ the walk. <br />Perhaps it is my head down there.<br />What will I see, <br />staring back with unseeing eyes.<br />The cackle re-forms, <br />and the chickens are in the way. <br />Yes, now they have <br />come home to roost.<br /></i>Alon Perlmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00155776897189144501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-43264923283031289292011-02-27T08:05:20.038-08:002011-02-27T08:05:20.038-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Alon Perlmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00155776897189144501noreply@blogger.com