.
threw the ball to the dog
threw the ball to the dog
through the fence a dog
snarled and bit where
otherwise it might of
nuzzled its muzzle in
my armpit the dog
would-be show dog showed
its teeth its
missing tooth
spit from
the herding group
.
the truck stalls past
round bales it
lets out a trailer of
feeder pigs loaded
into the operation
hotshot (cattle prod)
more prop than spur
loaded in there
the truck backs
past walnut
serrated walnut
and hedge
bright green hedgeballs the
truck backs
diamond cut
dusted
moth
.
nutted pig
teeth clipped
turned back into
loose into
the pen
back into
loose into
the stall
the tdap knot takes
weeks to disperse
and worse
no iodine in the cut
no iodine on the cut
just muck
just
the mountain cur’s flank
cured after
being layed open
at the top of a woven-wire fence