Archive for the ‘Farmer Boys’ Category

Prized

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

Nominate the sitting hens
While they cling to a screen wire
Watch them picking with their cut-off bills
Crown he fattest, crown the best
Breeding brooder that contest
In the competition that you give
Let’s play a losing game
Versus the sickness and versus the pain
Versus the butcher again and again
The winning...

When Pigs Fly

Monday, February 7th, 2011

Born into, born into this room as you
I have never left
I grew in my futility, just me
The room is was born into
Is made of cells without a view
An artificial wind that blew
To bring my silent love to you
Her angelic face, her immaculate grace
Are shining through the night
Like the stars in space and the moon in the...