Toby's Body
We all have seen it.
In the slide show he gives each summer.
There he is! (or There you are!) someone will say
In the slide show he gives each summer.
There he is! (or There you are!) someone will say
A deer!—nibbling on the few green things
that grow in my strawy meadow.
Mine, we say here: my studio, my meadow, my road.
No, I'm not the Austrian—you're confusing me
with Dora—the one who deserted Freud
before he had his chance to perfect her.
Waiting on the stairs of The Mizpah Missionary Home on
Summit Avenue, the children of apostles played with
neighborhood kids and sometimes spread the gospel, warming