Volume 3, Number 5
May, 1998

so does that mean
you're available?
since your boyfriend moved out--
asked the 900 lb young man

well your head isn't unattractive
this time of day
but the rest of you
is just a little too rotund
for me to work around

up to the office building fifth floor
elevator doors open
to the view of a spacious carpeted office
a large white rabbit hop-bounds toward me
my first few steps from the elevator
leaps his front feet-paws up onto my thigh
like a dog-greeting
eager to receive a petting--
Amazed
I stroke the rabbit's head and soft ears
wiggle-nosed
satisfied
it turns
moves off distracted
sniffing along a wall board
near a potted plant