Dogs
November 21, 2009
- I’m a sentimental cat, particularly when it comes to cats and dogs and the love people share through them. So here’s my poem (an average sort of poem, I’ll admit) on that subject, published last week in The Blue Guitar, an online publication of the Arizona Consortium for the Arts. See page 27: http://www.theblueguitarmagazine.org/resources/Blue+Guitar+Fall+2009+76+pages.pdf
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October 14, 2009
- “Awwww, it’s a PUPPY. A-DOR-able.” A cloud of designer fragrance wafts from the woman and her eighteen-carat bangles clink seductively as she reaches out a manicured hand to the squirming bundle in my arms. “You mean, ABHOR-able,” I mutter as the puppy pees ever so gently, warm and wet and drizzling down my favorite sweater. Designer Lady continues ...
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October 12, 2009
- Cover art for UNLEASHED: THE DOGS IN MY LIFE, a book-length celebration of dogs and dogginess. At the heart of the work (still in progress) is the question, What does it mean to be a dog in 21st Century America, 15,000 years after these animals (canis lupus familiaris, a subspecies of the gray woof, Canis lupus) first began to be domesticated? In addition to old favorites (Uncle Dog: The Poet at ...
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September 27, 2009
- Sunday is a newspaper with the Review section missingand two black crows that taunt and strut a heavy shroudof coffee grinds spill in drunken swirls and a clotted grey pashmina drapes the fields defiant yellow screams in a pot by the dooras the gate swings open and shuts againMuffled voices wiggle through a keyholeto disintegrate before they reach the woman with turquoise in her ...
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September 24, 2009
- A cabbie has been arrested for sexual intercourse with a canine. He believes he cannot be sentenced because it is a stray and not a pet dog! Mahesh Kamat while appearing before the court appealed for bail because the cops could not record the statement of the victim. He has been slapped on two charges – unnatural sex and cruelty against animals. The first one is the controversial Section 377 of ...
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September 23, 2009
- I never do any personal P.R. because...well, it seems to me that it never makes any difference. Its just one of those things I have learned by being alive. And there are few enough of those things. But it seems I learn this one over and over. Still...I will make that weak attempt one more time. For no reason at all. So okay, three things. 1. Here is someone else's blog about me, my dogs ...
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September 21, 2009
- We have a place in a village within an island county that has recently suffered trendiness. I knew the place had gone sadly uphill when I rounded a corner on a country road and coming at me was not a pick-up truck or ageing beater, but a shiny Maserati. Another encounter proved even more troubling, so much that I feel compelled to commit the egregious sin of blogging. We were walking the ...
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September 10, 2009
- The Puppy-From-Hell also enjoys the floral arts, beheading each rose, lily and aster with piranha precision. She spits out the slightly-sodden blossoms for my arranging pleasure. There are now many, many crystal goblets adorning my house, each floating a bedraggled bloom. All inherited from grandmothers and aunts, the petite wines were originally destined for claret and sherry and the ...
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September 10, 2009
- Yesterday's thick, low clouds brought an early dusk and perfect weather for observing wildlife. I hoped to track down an albino raccoon I'd glimpsed a few days ago, so when I noticed a smear of white moving along the margins of the field, I edged closer for a better look. My dog, Otter, followed. She’s almost eleven years old and her eyesight isn't what it once was, but we both identified ...
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September 10, 2009
- I couldn't help but break with my regular, frenetic, MFA writing/studying routine to post about this. I was lying in bed the other night, reading frenetically. Where the Red Fern Grows. A classic I've avoided because it suffers from the painful dead dog syndrome, actually two dead dogs. But, in the name of higher education, I'd decided to tackle it. I was just getting to the good part where ...
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