perros callejeros-

stomachknots
tied by mealless days
a street corner's garbage fill
overspills
with growlings
and showings of teeth
dogfights
for chicken boned waste
scrapped meat

brittle mutt-hungry and desperate
i count
starved ribs and vertebrae
a tooth torn ear
neckfulls of fleas
ticks
engorged pinto beans
stuck
infesting napes
and backs
canine bloodbank ambulant