These have not been submitted to Poetry.com as they do not meet Dave’s requirements exactly…but I decided to post them here. Apologies to William Carlos Williams…

The brown german shepherd

So much depends
upon

the brown german
shepherd

suffering from hunger
pains

eating the toes
of mother.

This is Just to Say

I have eaten
the toes
that were on
your mother

and which
she was probably
hoping
to keep

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and juicy