they found a wolf
- they found a wolf
they found a wolfout on the town curbwith a bloated bellyi came to looki thought it was pregnantits young rustled inside
they cut the belly openlike a gourd & outburst a green lotusmany-petaledof money
the wolf has died from eating moneythey said& they laughed [End Page 55]
Brian Laidlaw
Brian Laidlaw is a poet and songwriter from Northern California, and a graduate of the University of Minnesota MFA program in poetry. His work has appeared in New American Writing, Quarter After Eight, The Iowa Review, American Songwriter Magazine, and elsewhere. After several years as a touring folksinger, he currently teaches songwriting at McNally Smith College of Music in St. Paul, Minnesota.
