New Poem. Warning: it's sweet.


Possible Activities for Homedale, Idaho

pay a dollar 

for a crated chicken at the shack on the edge of town
  set the chicken free in a cornfield      collect shreds 
 of tire from the side of the road    buy a red  plastic 

dinosaur 
 for a quarter at the five and dime   spin on a stool 
at the counter of a diner as you order a milkshake   hang from the 
 rings of the jungle gym 

  at the school across the street   pick gravel 
 out of your knee after you fall    let the hose run  
on your cousin’s lawn until  tiny frogs 
  appear when you move your feet     

  go indoors and sit 
on grandma’s lap     talk to her about the scarred 
     alphabet blocks

 on the kitchen floor  the photos of your uncles shirtless taped
      to the refrigerator door