Category: Dog

• The heart needs good work

  All that comes to me now is the prairie, how it is empty to the casual eye, how you walk or see for miles, alone, how you wonder ever why on the absence of your fellow creatures. Will you get another dog? it asks me, or a grandmother, or husband, or son? Do they make…

  Jenifer

  January 26, 2017

  Aging, Dog, Grief, Illinois, Meditation, Nature, Yoga

  poetry

• On losing Sunny

  Our communion last night was pizza and chocolates and trailing conversation, a wide prairie for your memory to bound through. You settled into our center – How we loved you, how you made us laugh and roll our eyes and fake scold you, how you took that bait and we took yours, how you will…

  Jenifer

  January 2, 2017

  Death, Dog, Dying, Family, Love

  poetry