Weekly Poem: 'Barking'

**By Jim Harrison** The moon comes up. The moon goes down. This is to inform you that I didn't die young. Age swept past me but I caught up. Spring has begun here and each day brings new birds up from Mexico. Yesterday I got a call from the outside world but I said no in thunder. I was a dog on a short chain and now there's no chain.   "Jim Harrison":http://www.pbs.org/newshour/indepth_coverage/entertainment/poetry/profiles/poet_harrison.html has published more than 30 collections of poetry and prose. "In Search of Small Gods" is his twelfth book of poems. His connection to rural landscapes is evident in his free-verse, imagistic poetry, which often explores human and animal drives set against an unforgiving natural world. His work has been translated into two dozen languages and produced as four feature-length films. He has been poetry editor of "The Nation" has also served as the food columnist for the magazines Smart and Esquire. For more about Harrison, visit our "Poetry Series.":http://www.pbs.org/newshour/indepth_coverage/entertainment/poetry/index.html