Tuesday, April 27, 2010

"Sleeping Alone" by Amy Miller

Sleeping Alone

Listening
to the neighbor’s dog
bark
and bark.
He must
be very big,
his mouth as big
as my head,
as big
as a Macy’s Day float,
his corridor throat
commanding me
to hear:
I am one
dog
in the lonely bowl
of night
and there
is so
much
dark.

-- Amy Miller

(Apologies to Ms. Miller, but I no longer recall where I obtained this poem.)

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