Your Sunday Poem

by Kay Ryan, whose book of poems, "Say Uncle" is in your local bookstore waiting for you to come and get it and read it.

Fool's Errands

A thing

cannot be

delivered

enough times:

this is the

rule of dogs

for whom there

are no fool's

errands. To

loop out and

come back is

good all alone.

It's gravy to

carry a ball

or a bone.