Horoscopes for the Dead by Billy Collins

Author:Billy Collins [Collins, Billy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-679-60450-1
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2011-04-05T04:00:00+00:00

or I will see her hop onto the couch to nap

then later find her down

on the Turkish carpet, her nose in the fringe.

The moon rolls across the night sky

and stops to peer down at the earth,

and the dog rolls through these rooms

and onto the lawn, pausing here and there

to sleep or to stare up at me, head in her paws,

to consider the scentless pen in my hand

or the open book on my lap.

And because her eyes always follow me,

she must wonder, too, why

I shift from place to place,

from the couch to the sink

or the pencil sharpener on the wall—

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