A poem for summer: "Two dogs" (M Bromberg)

"Two dogs"

(M Bromberg)

Shadow, whose shadow

advances before him on the garden path,

is dizzily content without

man's machinery or staff,

sundial or an hour's watch:

only a need for digging in good black earth --

and a bath.

His older sister, Roxie, plays

more slowly in the sun,

resting early in the trellis shade

with day barely begun.

By noon asleep, by after-noon

quietly inspecting her estates:

by sun's setting, ready for sleep again,

where the dream of the garden path awaits.

for Shadow and Roxie, 4/13/2011