side track
imagine a dementia dog pack imagine
the threat of such explosive animal proximity
the dogs are like a movie jumping back
cutting back to the beginning and dogs
dogs are coming again the jerky wooden
roller coaster motion of them repeating
the dogs going at it the dog pack
as a single entity so tightly packed
it becomes a coil of hot animal potential
repeating and compulsive and endless
on the inside of demented heads the side
tracked heads of the distracted
old held in the grasp
the gasp of these dogs memories
gone minds gone to the dogs
“side track” is from Someday, a manuscript about Su Croll’s father’s death. Su has published two poetry collections, Worlda Mirth and Blood Mother, and has completed a novel called Image Hungry.