"Do you ever stop complaining?” he asks.

“No,” she says, horrified. “It would be like I’d given up hope."

#mood

Homes is always a journey - this one was a lot stranger than any of the ones before. Review to come.

Landscape maintenance
 is when Jake moves his best goats
  into the front yard.

I'm not overly familiar with the history of the haiku, so I cannot in good conscience comment on Witte's usage of the form for good or ill. I grabbed this as a lark on my pass through the library. There are a bare few that stand out, but overall, a kitschy little book likely meant for big fans of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour.

Rooster crows before
 Mom's morning coffee and now
   simmers on the stove.

Seriously, this series just makes me love Peter more. And we have a little insight to Hawkguy here.

Steve, you did a bad thing and you should feel bad. Poor Peter.

Rounded up 2.75 stars.

Here again his face grew peaked and anxious with that sense of loss I had first seen when the Power snatched him. But this time the agony was tenfold keener. As I watched it mounted like mercury in the tube. It lighted his face from within till I thought the visibly scourged soul must leap forth naked between his jaws, unable to endure.