Lazy dog’s lament

Posted on July 30, 2007 by Dave Bonta

The busy ones
the fast breeder reactors
always amaze me:

the ermine’s
slick white rope-
trick of a body
vanishing into the snow

a hummingbird threading
the hundred eyes of a woodlot
without slowing down

the manic shrew
like a heat-
seeking missile
& yes
the quick brown fox

ah I am nothing but
a speed bump
on a log
a lazy dog

but I figure
someone has to sit
at the center
of the maze
they make.

About Dave Bonta

Dave Bonta (bio) crowd-sources his problems by following his gut, which he shares with one quadrillion of his closest microbial friends --- a tight-knit, symbiotic community comprising some 500 different species of bacteria, fungi, and protozoa.
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3 Responses to Lazy dog’s lament

  1. Fred Garber says:
    July 31, 2007 at 10:58 am

    I love the way you end this “someone has to sit
    at the center
    of the maze
    they make. “

  2. Rebecca Clayton says:
    July 31, 2007 at 1:41 pm

    I always wondered about the lazy dog. I suspected he had his reasons.

  3. sylph says:
    July 31, 2007 at 3:50 pm

    nice.