I want to be worthy of this waking dream -- floating above the August landscape in a coffin with my dog who's just died from fibroid cancer. Yes. We'll be up there and absorb the light of stars and phosphorus like the new army telescopic sights and the light hanging captive in clouds and the light glittering upward from the water and porch lights from the few trucks & cars at 3 AM and one lone airliner. Grief holding us safe in a knot we'll float over every mile we covered, birch clump, thorn apple, wild cherry trees and aspen in search of grouse, your singular white figure fixed then as Sirius the Dog Star. I think this crazed boy striking out at nothing wants to join you so homeward bound. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SLEEPING TOGETHER by KATHERINE MANSFIELD AN OLD WOMAN OF THE ROADS by PADRAIC COLUM THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY A CHARACTER OF JOSEPH PRIESTLY by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD A CREW POEM by EDWARD AUGUSTUS BLOUNT JR. |