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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