Providential

This town provides:

Mothers smile and say hello,
Fathers hit fungo to their sons,
Families rally around the flag,
White picket fences keep others out,

Ambulances cruise & never use sirens,
Dogs never bark or froth,
Pigeons align themselves from pole to pole—

On electrified wires.

What I’m Reading:

“I listen.
I hear nothing. Only
the cow
of nothingness mooing, mooing
down the bones.”

— Galway Kinnell / “Another Night in the Ruins”