Plain Thomas
"Just call me Plain Thomas," he
said. "I speak the truth,
and I have no home."
"Where do you stay now?"
"In a wigwam
I built on Deer Creek --
but in two weeks I'll be gone."
"Where will you go?"
"West."
"How far West?"
"Japan."
Cat
A cat says:
"me-you, me-you."
Prison Money
cigarettes
knives
pornography
rings
candy
Foresty Meal
Acorns, mushrooms,
and pine bark
wine.
First Ugly
"You are the first
ugly man I loved,"
she said,
fingering my tie.
Heard In A Dream
"he has pigs buried in his hair"
Tippy-Toes
Standing
on
his
tippy-toes
Tom
could
see
Canada.