I took Ray to his library on a bright and breezy day. He looked this way and that way, alert to the moment. He stopped a lot to sniff, as if he had to smell the roses. We walked over a mile. It took almost forty minutes.
“How was the library?” my wife asked on our return.
“Good,” I answered.
“Yeah,” she replied. “He needed to get out and smell the roses.”
Ray wagged his huge tail, shook his huge head, and barked with happiness.
| Copyright © 2023 by Michael H. Brownstein Michael H. Brownstein’s volumes of poetry, A Slipknot Into Somewhere Else and How Do We Create Love?, were published by Cholla Needles Press in 2018 & 2019, respectively. |
The revelation of Ray’s caninity is nice! He’s a member of your family, which fact I love.
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