The Fats Man Eyes Greenland
Nowhere can we evade the clamor
of his craving to shovel on this
misnamed empire of snow and ice.
Individuals pray as soon as he has crammed his bleak
insides with an expanse of whiteness
he’ll be glad. However no, already
he’s scheming to assert the Northern Lights
so he can drape them over the nation
whereas his crimes get buried in permafrost.
He tucks a serviette underneath his chin
and bites right into a calving glacier.
He’d most likely end it off if
it weren’t for the Inuit’s sled canine,
who scent his path of treachery and
refuse to be hitched to this heavy
two-legged chasing after his urge for food.
Former NEA Fellow Donald Levering’s sixteenth poetry guide, Breaking Down Acquainted, was revealed by Major Road Rag Publishing. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the place he volunteers as a U.S.. citizenship tutor and co-curates the HERE Gallery poetry studying sequence.
Header picture of Northern Lights over Greenland by Vadim_N, courtesy Shutterstock.
