Canine Poetry
Grog Attends a Back Yard Party
Free verse
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2 min readMay 27, 2022
Children’s smiles fade like broken lines
on a jostled etch-a-sketch
in the shadow of your elephantine brow
and now
the desert sun declines in pinks and plums,
throwing blush on cactus and coyote,
tho’ no light can penetrate your inky coat,
or…