Sunday, April 3, 2016

Sarah St Vincent Welch #99 Animal friends


tabby in the high window
the motif
for my everyday
she glances down 
away

lanky Sylvester,
Irish Wolfhound,
knows our language well
checks the mail

the poet and the dancer
bike it to the local
their rescue greyhound
lopes beside 

our goldfish
named with hope
buried at the front door

dreadlocked neighbour
mob of pitbulls
rumble up the lane

the smiling librarian
and good old Monty
on their morning walk
she carrying a plate
to catch his specimen
(always too late)

the bevy of curly oodles
outside the fish and chip shop

Rodger
like a Hound of the Baskervilles
booming over his back fence

the reclining bike rider
Labrador licking her face

the rat on our doorhandle
catching moths








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