A Log Cabin From Scratch {forthcoming in MMM Vol. X.}
I look down at my dog
and notice a small log
in her mouth. She soon
sees another log and
wants that one, too,
as though she had plans
to build a log cabin. She's
now making the necessary
calculations and tests to see
whether she can carry both.
She can't. She can only
carry one at a time. She'll
never be the Abraham Lincoln
of dogs and live in a log cabin
built by her own paws.
Hal Sirowitz is the author of the books of poems, Mother Said, My Therapist Said, Before, During & After and Father Said. He has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship is a 2003-2004 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow. In 2001, Sirowitz was named Poet Laureate of Queens, New York. His poems have been widely anthologized in collections such as Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems and in Poetry in Motion from Coast to Coast. He has performed on MTV’s Spoken Word Unplugged, PBS’s Poetry Heaven, and NPR’s All Things Considered. Garrison Keillor has read Sirowitz’s work on NPR’s Writer’s Almanac. Sirowitz works as a special education teacher for the New York City public schools.