A Song for the Yak

By Gary Barwin
Poetry · From the July/August 2006 magazine
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and she insists on singing
though I am in pain
and the police
are chasing me


In every ending
there is a new beginning
yadda yadda yadda
my mother always said
though I never listened too carefully
because after all
we were yaks and
I had limited expectations
Gary Barwin's latest book, written with derek beaulieu, is frogments from the frag pool: haiku after basho (The Mercury Press, 2005), a collection of riffs and remixes of Edo-era Japanese poet Matsuo Basho's famous frog poem.
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