Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Barking Dog - Lucille Hamilton



You can bark for all you want
but it won't scare off anything
I can see.
I think you know this, after all
these years of living here.

Is it that night's darkness doesn't show
you our property
the way the sunlight does, 
so in the darkness beyond
there might just be…..
something?

I am right, aren't I, in thinking
you're out there each night
defending our home, or turf
might be a better expression?

Whatever it is you are doing, 
please keep it short;
I'll have to deal with my nice neighbors –
in the morning.

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