Dog Poems by Various

Author:Various
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780811230599
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2021-02-09T00:00:01+00:00

Louis MacNeice

Dogs in the Park

The precise yet furtive etiquette of dogs

Makes them ignore the whistle while they talk

In circles round each other, one-man bonds

Deferred in pauses of this man-made walk

To open vistas to a past of packs

That raven round the stuccoed terraces

And scavenge at the mouth of Stone Age caves;

What man proposes dog on his day disposes

In litter round both human and canine graves,

Then lifts his leg to wash the gravestones clean,

While simultaneously his eyes express

Apology and contempt; his master calls

And at the last and sidelong he returns,

Part heretic, part hack, and jumps and crawls

And fumbles to communicate and fails.

And then they leave the park, the leads are snapped

On to the spiky collars, the tails wag

For no known reason and the ears are pricked

To search through legendary copse and crag

For legendary creatures doomed to die

Even as they, the dogs, were doomed to live.

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