The black dogs run across the field,
apocalyptic streak of hunger
impending upon the tiny fawn
to jump, wobble-kneed and run
across the far field clumsily,
as stupidly as its wild heartbeat,
unable to know that this was all there was.
By Michael Burczynski
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Dr. Michael E. Burczynski has written poetry for two decades and has published poems and short fiction in numerous small journals. He is currently the Global Head of Genomics at Roche Pharmaceuticals and is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Pennsylvania. He has edited two textbooks and continues to write poetry and fiction. His recently completed, full-length novel entitled "The Damnation Algorithm" is currently represented by the Gleason Literary Agency, and a chapbook of Dr. Burczynski's poetry entitled "Animals and Imagined Monsters" is forthcoming from Amsterdam Press in 2010. He lives in Kinnelon, New Jersey with his wife and their two children.
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