This Poem was Submitted By: Michael J. Cluff On Date: 2001-09-25 20:03:07 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Of Dogs and Men

It all fits too well--- the last spot of amber light slips behind the point where granite-blue mountain touches the smog-smeared sky, the movie on the VCR, reaches the scene right before they took the old sheepdog out to slaughter since its day was nearly done. My middle-aged one, still robust, yet whiter on the neck, chest  and muzzle than I had ever noted, comes slyly in sits down, just below my line of direct sight but still in front of the tv and stares steadily doggedly at me until he, not the film, has my full gaze upon him. After the off-camera shot he leaves, back into his normal, his usual puppy deep sleep in the dining room next to the imitation oak table.

Copyright © September 2001 Michael J. Cluff


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