Society's Dirty Work

by KJ Hannah Greenberg

Maintaining a group,
Running stock,
Among daytime's hills and dales,
Interpreting social rules,
As passing fancies compete
Requires deviance.

Goats, unlike lambs,
Would rather wrongly amble,
Than be herded,
For shearing,
Milking,
Or toward the butcher.

Society's dirty jobs,
Get actualized,
One large flock,
After another,
In the quietude,
Of migration's end.

Even so, we work together,
Over great distances,
Supported by wagons,
Self-constructed,
During health checks;
Our hearts were marked.

KJ Hannah Greenberg and her hibernaculum of imaginary hedgehogs roam the verbal hinterlands. Sylvan creatures to a one, they fashion verse from leaves, shiny bugs and marshmallow fluff. Some of the homes for their poetry have included: Cantaraville, Language and Culture Magazine, Poetica, Poetry Superhighway, The New Vilna Review, and Vox Poetica. Last year, Hannah read poetry submissions for Sotto Voce and was named, by The Shine Journal, for the Pushcart Poetry Prize.