The Handy Carnivore

canines likes these like chances
heavy in mahogany cigar rooms
we jest better pastry chefs
just enough to allow some truth
that quaint words still take bite
routineless flirting of ends
never learned to be sneaky
as they try to pass chestnut carriers
afraid whales will get on them
in the sharp ocean where children
connect to slowly for harm’s way
become shepherds & not nice guys
forgetful warriors who learn to grin
at all this around us that ages