I am I because my little dog knows me.
This is Just Puppy Dog Tails
I have stolen
a photo pup
from another’s
myspace page
which was
probably an
atextual testament
to the owner’s love.
Look not upon
my co-opting ways;
women are made
of fire and ice,
Sweet tongs of
the devil’s pitchfork,
so able
and so divine.
A la William Carlos Williams, “This is Just to Say”.
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Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the Women’s National Book Association (WNBA) Award. Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She co-edited with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She also co-edits the anthology series, Bettering American Poetry, and is a professor of creative writing at SUNY Nassau Community College.
AMY KING 
February 20th, 2006 at 5:09 am epure E – V – I – L