Old Dogs Dreaming

A Stitchpoint Print by Kate Hill

 

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OLD DOGS DREAMING

Against a light blue sky old dogs

are dreaming of those years of excess.

Nowadays their owners caress

is more important than bones,

liaisons with cats and up for it hounds.  Meanwhile,

golden memories hover about a nose length away.

As clear as if it was only Monday week when they

strutted their stuff.

Lean rangy boys, sniffing at the world

and let it whistle as it may

they would come when they were ready

and only then.

 

Now the ache in the hind quarter, tremble in the paw,

the worrying contrast between scrawny limbs and thickened body

don’t add up to much.

Except to those who knew them as pups.