Showing posts with label Druke. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Druke. Show all posts

Thursday, February 15, 2024

Quiet Gifts

 

They were found

placed ever so neatly

on the stair.

 

A bit of dirt,

small twigs,

a crumpled leaf, in parts.

Evidence of

your last climb.

 

The last few hours

we’d hugged you,

pressed your paw,

fed you cookies,

gathered round

your bed.

 

How soundless

when pain leaves

the echoing room

with sunlight rising

and falling

 

on a

bit of dirt,

small twigs,

a crumpled leaf, in parts.

 

Small, quiet, final gifts

regretfully swept away

after parting.

 

© 2024 Jennifer Wagner

 

For Sumana’s prompt at What’s Going On?  Aubade (traditional or modern)

 

For our beloved labrador, Druke, 2000-2016.

Monday, January 2, 2017

New Year

*Cooper
Photo © Jennifer Wagner


Your collar, green,
his, blue.

You, so polite,
of course, he bites
(as new things do).

But how much he looks like you—
the curl of his tongue in Snoopy yawn,
stretched out
on the rug

where you lay, it feels,
only moments ago.


© 2017 Jennifer Wagner

 

A Quadrille for dVerse.  Happy 2017!


*New puppy Cooper is bringing delight to our hearts after the loss of our beloved Labrador retriever, Druke, in November.