About A Bitch

May 20, 2008

The collie dog races after sheep
wants them just so-
genetic selection- generations of sheep gone astray
leave the remainder in packs,
easily led.

Somewhere under the disposition
that wrestles children and fetches on demand
is the tenuous connection
to her pack,
to the sisterhood of hot blood
and the rabbits as prey
racing the long grass.

It comes down to genetics,
a thousand generations and a
hundred thousand years
of sports and runts and culls
that separate a collie from a wolf.

A wolf would chase after the sheep, still,
but with a mind on meat.