Pig at Large

by Lee Scher

There was a pig named Nathan Frack
?who walked along a railroad track
?and met beside a wolf who’d tied?
his things inside a pink pig hide.

He killed him there in the yellow glare
?of the lamppost light that moonless night;
And buried the skin that had been his kin,
?and said a prayer, and flew from there.

From: 
February, 1997




ABOUT THE POET ~
Lee Scher grew up in the suburbs outside Washington D.C. and lives in Portland, Oregon. He is a contemplative psychotherapist, who specializes in working with people who've experienced trauma in relationships, and his way of working is deeply informed by Buddhism and Jungian Psychology.