One poem by Dale Patterson

That Monkey

has feelings
knows more
than you think.
Look at the mud
in his eyes
heavy in volume
the air on his lips
cussing you out.
See as he rattles
his cage.
He's watching you

laugh at his antics

your superior 

point-of-view

that sneers 

at his love

his poem
that he writes
with opposable 

thumbs.

Dale Patterson is a visual artist and poet living in Indiana. His works have appeared in Black Heart Magazine, Right Hand Pointing, Clutching at Straws, Main Street Rag, Iodine Poetry Journal, Bank-Heavy Press and Four-and-Twenty.