"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.)