Longevity
Of me may it one day be said:
“I thought he was already dead!”
Posse
I sometimes think, when I am bored,
it might be nice to have a horde.
My needs are modest, though, and can
be answered by a tribe or clan.
To a Neighbor
I wish that I could be as wild
as wolves or tigers or your child.
Michael Lind is the author of more than a dozen books of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry, including a chapbook, When You Are Someone Else (Aralia Press, 2002), a collection, Parallel Lives (Etruscan Press, 2007), a children’s book in verse, Bluebonnet Girl (2003), which won an Oppenheimer Toy Prize Portfolio Gold Book award, and a narrative poem, Thhttps://www.amazon.com/Alamo-Epic-Michael-Lind/dp/0395827582e Alamo (1997), named as one of the best books of the year by The Los Angeles Times Book Review. Lind has been an editor or writer at Harper’s Magazine, The New Yorker, The New Republic, The National Interest, Salon, and Tablet.