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Dying Dog

The dog lay on the shoulder of this one way road;
Bleaching like a dying person’s skin
With shallow gasps as if he’d run his final race.
He twitched one hind paw, every now and then
While his Spanish eyes teared into a gaze
As if he saw something well beyond;
Behind the clouded sun…
I whispered to him, as I bent upon one knee,
And I know it didn’t matter what I said,
As long as another’s voice reached out to him as company;
Not to hold him to this graveled naked grave
But to let him slip more easily
Into the place he had to go…
I toweled him with my shirt,
As much to comfort him
As I needed to be free
Of all my hit and runs
And the ones that waited up ahead for me.

 

 

Ken Siegelman
Brooklyn Poet Laureate

 
Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz 209 Joralemon Street Brooklyn, NY 11201 718-802-3700