Michael Earl Craig is an American poet from Livingston, Montana. Craig is the author of Can You Relax in My House (Fence Books, 2002), Yes, Master (Fence Books, 2006), and Thin Kimono (Wave Books, 2010). He was appointed the Montana Poet Laureate in October 2015.
When trying to catch a horse it helps if you look away.
Eye contact just pisses them off.
But you can't fake looking away, horses
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Kurosawa was a moralist.
It is said he took and gently bent
Akutagawa's grove.
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This night nurse is different.
She walks into my room and does not turn the light on.
She thinks I am sleeping.
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A kind of Danish cow
long thought to be extinct
lumbers slowly from a fog-soaked forest.
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I was visited by an idea for a poem I could never write
cigarette smoke wafted in in moderation
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