Dottie and the Plymouth Rocks From: Iowa Review | Date: April 1, 2004| Author: Anonymous | Copyright University of Iowa, English Department Spring 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Now it's dark, and our imagining is easier.

The single bulb is burning

in the chicken house.

Don't touch that wire. Electricity will seize

hold of you, Dottie; the current will seize

hold and melt the metal

buttons off your blouse.

Now it's dark: imagining is easier.

If there's a lion in the chicken house, it's sire

of our trouble then; Detroit Edison

cannot roust

the beast. An agency is coming out to seize

th...

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