Iron Mountain ski jump

Iron Mountain ski jump

Wednesday, August 24, 2022

PRAYER FOR A LITTLE DOG [W, 8-24-22]

 


Oh, Ernie,

You were such a rascal

Your paw upon my thigh

lest I, or anyone else, think

that I was free

to traipse without you

You saved us

from TV dinosaurs

and unapproved

delivery folk

[None were ever

approved]

Plato would have loved you

The perfect model for a dog

in shadow on the cave wall

You were exactly

what you were meant to be

In your dogged

self-centeredness

you pulled us out

from our own shaggy selves

 

John Robert McFarland

In the picture above, I have just driven ten hours to Ernie’s house for Christmas. That was as far as I could get in before being required to hang out with him.

 

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