How to Pull the Wool Over Someone’s Eyes
By Philip Venzke
First, find a sheep.
Spin an uneven yarn.
Second, develop fingerspitzengefühl.
Hold a map of their mind in your mind.
Third, pick category 5 or 6 wool.
It creates quick projects on big needles.
When finished with the gentle knit,
be careful not to touch their eyelashes.
The wool must not be felt.
Philip Venzke grew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. His most recent poems have appeared in Harbinger Asylum, Survision Magazine, Door Is A Jar, One Sentence Poems, and Shift: A Journal of Literary Oddities. A prize-winning chapbook of his poetry will be published in 2022 by Survision Books in Ireland.