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.

Saturday, November 19, 2016

Everlove (Softly to Be Let In)


photo of card from our neighbor

This poem is about a dog,
you know the one,
the one who danced in the kitchen
with the kids after dinner;

the one who nibbled gently
on your shirtsleeve
when you played and scratched and loved him;

the one who howled happy,
and barked deep if asked to speak,
but softly to be let in;

the one who taught you more
than you taught him.

This poem is about a dog
who, with his final breaths,
looked you, each, in the face
one long, loving, last time.


© 2016 Jennifer Wagner

In Memory of Druke Wagner 2000-2016