Caren Krutsinger Poet Narrative

I Cannot Outguess This Dog Today

Sophie Dog is excited beyond belief
No idea what she has heard, but she is barking like crazy
Sometimes a large truck puts her into this kind of frenzy

The way she runs up the driveway, I am expecting to see
Dracula with a mountain lion chaser, coming to bite my neck
She is gone an extra long time, too long. I start to worry

But she comes running onto the porch from the opposite direction
So I know she has run around the house, and maybe further.
She is by herself. She growls at Shark K. Cat for putting her claws on the glass door.

A motorcycle buzzes up the road. Usually this puts her into berserk mode.
It does not today. She starts drinking water like a colt that has never had a drink.
A Mack truck goes by, and she ignores it too.  I cannot outguess this dog today.

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Jennifer Proxenos June 25, 2019 at 8:32 AM Sometimes dogs are predictable and sometimes they act as aliens. Yesterday our 5 year old Lab surprised me, I asked him to go get one of his toys squeak, and lo and behold he fetched squeak and dropped him at my feet - this dog has human in him! Hugs, Jennifer. Caren Krutsinger June 25, 2019 at 9:56 AM They say a dog has the vocabulary of a two year old child. We say "Mama's going night night" and we can hear the ticky, ticky, ticky of her fast paws in the hallway on the way to the bedroom.