It is possible that I am
transgressing Billy’s copyright, but since I am telling you that Billy is my
favorite poet, and that this poem appears on page 57 of Aimless Love, and urging you to buy that book, or any of the other
books of Billy’s poems, I hope he’ll forgive me, which would be an appropriate
thing for him to do on Ash Wednesday.
JRMcF
johnrobertmcfarland@gmail.com
FLOCK
It
has been calculated that each copy of
the
Gutenberg Bible …required the
skins
of 300 sheep
--from
an article on printing
I saw them squeezed into
the holding pen
behind the stone building
where the printing press
is housed,
all of them squirming
around
to find a little room
and looking so much alike
it would be nearly
impossible
to count them,
and there is no telling
which one will carry the
news
that the Lord is a
shepherd,
one of the few things they
already know.
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