Dog Places Poems

I  cannot recall my very first place 
as a baby I did not know my home; 
a new baby's room dressed with pretty lace...

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She said, listen...I was silent;
She said, hear it? – the absence...
for amid, the usual chatter and clamor of
daily activity, other, more appealing, sounds 
had vacated:

No...

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gardens are where we are:

  from "Eden" to "Gilgamesh", "Babylon" to "Gethsemane"
  from mountain to coast, town to country
  from wetlands to...

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the coastal train began to slow
as two tracks merged together
it stopped at the end of a single line
in freezing winter weather.

the arrow on the 'way...

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No snow has fallen yet,
daises still soak up sunlight,
no wind makes them shiver;
grannies gather outside and chat,
many have silver-gray hair.

Little sparrow afraid of winter
trembling and...

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Montgomery County Pennsylvania housing choice voucher...
eligibility predicated upon mandatory fingerprinting

Courtesy anticipatory anxiety
breeds palmar hyperhidrosis
(i.e. hands adrip
with profuse perspiration)
honest to dog truthfully
most inconvenient malady

holds Earthling (yours...

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A schoolfriend kick-around
Mr Whippy lurking at the gate
Benched smoking friends with blue bagged camouflaged alcohol
A new family stroll to encourage baby's sleep

New cyclists concentrating
Old cyclists...

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A massive, arch-shaped hearth of stone,
old shiplap walls of weathered oak,
warm, woolen rugs of corded make,
ancient rocker, it creaks a lot.

Fire consumes thick maple logs,
perched...

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tiny mound of sand
harbor crab-
dog diggs
...

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rural sewage, twister tunnel runs
like water damaged dust and rat
feces soaking the lawn down to 
a dog in the ground a town over
rusted tin and...

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I sit here penning poems;
Listening to children play.
Frisbee obsessed dog zooms by;
Children chase the thief!...

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Just because an impetus arose

Thank dog, and cat,
     no pet tee filed - late fee
incurred from this
    ...

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There's no place like home now or ever for me.
I love being here in my own space, you see.
My collections, colors, and black dog abound.
Walk...

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The dog got a crack from the cat, in the face
When he ambled into the cat's air space
The cat gave the dog, the stare of...

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I walked down a road the other day
and met a neighbor while she said "Hey,"
I watched her bend over
to pet her dog "Rover"...
what a darn...

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