"Rabbit Song" by Arlene Kim

Rabbit Song


I stood too near the warren
and when I stumbled back, the rabbits stamped in alarm.


Iambic admonition, cautionary song.


Of what in the wood did they warn? Of whom?



Source of the text - Arlene Kim, What have you done to our ears to make us hear echoes?  Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2011, p. 50

Bourguignomicon: Hare iambs; poem as a Paul Revere ride. Not just the poet’s closing questions but also: who’s being warned? If rabbits are poets, who is I?