Saturday, January 21, 2017

PUPPY


On a puppy's sleepy
spotted tummy
the sun connects her dots.

Her back legs tricycle.
Her pink snout-
of-a-velvet church

beads with milk;
a muffle; an eye
swims under its lid

as her brother's tongue
takes her ear up
like a flower petal.

By Stephen Lindow



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