life lived in moments
from crises to remedies
(one day’s event course)
broken cars and drains
cannot break twenty-one years
of kept promises
so let’s build fires
to burn the losses of life
and collars of hope
because even pup
knows how to tolerate pain
as peonies pop
waiting for summer
as peonies slowly bloom
just after sunrise
between this sunrise
painted so perfectly pink
and this steak dinner
lay a fasting day
of walking, planting, napping
fifteen days, hours
our yard: spring heaven–
filtered crabapple flowers,
burgeoning aspen
red tulips bursting
while puppy and Daddy rest
for Sunday funday
crabapple city
beckons my perfect cycle
through pink and white parks
miracles happen
when exhaustion hits us all
and we learn to love
national pet day:
for this ratty-haired puppy
i give way too much
pomapoo powder
won’t complain of April snow
snow play any day
a sunny Sunday
is made for panting puppies
searching for blue skies
a journey through snow
inspired Pi Day baking
with just a few prints
sometimes all i need
in this upside down world
is a puppy’s love
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