Just Howl
for Sonia Alexandra Isaacs

why don’t you, why can’t you
just fart something
or burp something
or sweat something
cough or sneeze something
rather than always, so carefully
licking your paintings onto canvas
like a cat licks
its just-born kittens


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2007
11:28 a.m. 07/09/07