Animals

by Jerry K. Robbins What if animals can stand apartFrom themselves, circumspectEven the lowly skink,Look around themselves and reflect“What am I to think?” What if a horse’s plaintive neighIs his way of announcingThat life is more thanRunning in circlesAt the beck and call of man What if an elephant coming across bonesThat once were enfleshed and aliveSees that these bones Read More

Duolingo Ponies

by Ray Ball, PhD My horse does not eat rice. I admit the horse  is the horse I have only  ever had between outwitting advertisements. I can’t omit to tell you  the horse drinks milk.  My ponies probably have flanks, shiny with sweat,  but I don’t know  the words for shiny or flank yet.  For pony either. Is it the Read More