I’ve got a cat in my arms here trying to help me post to this blog (she is not all that helpful)! It makes me miss all those animals who kept me company over the years, especially one little dog:
February
The night before, the ice fell in sheets from the sky and I was a child.
But in the morning
I awoke to sun that glistened and glowed and melted
the way out.
I skated in circles through my parent’s house,
frantic to pack my life into trash bags and move on.
She sat curled in the snow, watching me.
She shivered skinny from not eating.
We should have carried her back inside but
we were all so busy moving those trash bags.
In that still winter quiet, in her favorite month,
I went out to her.
I crouched down to touch her face.
I said goodbye, turned to leave.
When the melted ice froze that night,
I was in a white lonely place that smelled of new carpet.
She dreamed of snow on her tongue.
She was waiting for her old dogs to finally
take her home.
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