Kate gave me a beautiful birthday present today--the 2018 Texas Poetry Calendar. (Editors' Selections From the Past Nine Years). Her poem, Chickens in the Yard," was chosen for the book and published in the Summer section. (I'm pretty sure you can get a copy of the calendar at The Twig and other Texas booksellers.)
I was in Georgia and had to miss the reading, so I'm posting her so-Kate poem:
Chickens in the Yard
Can't seem to get away from roosters
Loud-mouthed, cocky-feathered
Bastards
Scratching and strutting making
Much ado about
Nothing
Might as well be in a barroom
Roosters take up as much space as
Cowboys
And from the evidence on the ground
They are all full of the same stuff.
Kate Mangold
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