Eight Loud Hounds
A young woman with eight dogs
sat in the grass and chewed gum,
observed her feet or stared ahead
to where the road had turned
beneath the full grown summer
(her hair fell long and yellow
to the green that grew to meet it)
sat and chewed and whistled
softly to the eight loud hounds
who ran in circles around my car,
then stopped to gnaw the wheels
of my intention to move along.
ALAN CLARK is a poet and painter. His book, Guerrero and Heart's Blood has been given theater productions in the U.S. and Mexico in both Spanish and English. Blood and Stone: Paintings by Alan Clark was at the Farnsworth Art Museum in 2004. His poems have appeared in The Caribbean Writer, Wolf Moon Journal, Clean Sheets and several magazines.
