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Callaloo 27.2 (2004) 388


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thoughts on the matter of runaways

Quraysh Ali Lansana

Negro Dog

don't mind showin my teeth
means i get to work
my legs and savor that hunk of meat
after i track em down

don't even see a coon
unless i'm trainin or chasin
master stick an old shirt or scrap
under my snout and i'm gone

he doesn't let me out
for anythin else i live to run
this cage makes me crazy
leaves my blood funny

coons really aren't hard ta catch
they have to sleep sometime

Quraysh Ali Lansana is author of they shall run: harriet tubman poems, southside rain, The Big World, and cockroach children: corner poems and street psalms; and editor of Glencoe/McGraw-Hill's African American Literature Reader. He lives in Chicago.


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