Biddies Have Hens

way they dress says look
too polite to disobey
insufficiently stubborn
to look away

3 o’clock on Kemp Road,
mothers with their tiny tots
with them returning
from Uriah McPhee

my house has windows to run to,
to look through

about the house hangs,
bunches of papaw
rain, this afternoon
threatens to pour


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2007
3:16 p.m. 18/09/07