Trying to Believe / We Are Endangered

I go inside the wolf

9:35 Sunday morning

Inside my beastly stinking

I kneel and light

A candle for snow

On the website

Churchoftheend.org

Late Monday stuck in traffic

I stick also to the wolf

Like Teaberry gum

Glommed to the sole of a boot

Marked down in the Goodwill

Or ice clinging to a leaf

Three million years ago

Though I am not famished

Nor does my fur bristle

Tuesday I go inside the wolf

Following standard sheep

Of no particular breed

Maybe old testament sheep

Maybe apocalyptic statistics

How large my teeth and ears

How wild my panting Wednesday

When I put on the head

And stare out of the wolf

The Krewe of  Oak jerks

And turns the corner

From Oak onto Carrollton

Hello fossils Hello Thursday

That smells like money

Hello American elm Hello dodo

Hello polar bear snoozing in a sauna

I hear inside the wolf

The Carborundum of coal drills

Resonating from glaciers

On Friday I write Wolf Hell

On the bank I write it in wolf blood

To make (myself) believe

The condition is critical

I donate my body to science

To synch with the wolf

And spare the cost of the funeral

Saturday crossing the causeway

Seeing three boys on skis

And sometimes in the sky

The letters of an ad or proposal

I am happy to be a rich animal driving

There is a great storm coming

I go inside the wolf