Golden, a photo by wablair on Flickr.
Mark Doty - Golden Retrievals
to unsnare time's warp (and woof!), retrieving,
my haze-headed friend, you. This shining bark,
a Zen master's bronzy gong, calls you here,
entirely, now: bow-wow, bow-wow, bow-wow.
Copyright 1998 Mark Doty, Sweet Machine: Poems HarperFlamingo
Mark Doty writes: 'Dogs, in a way, are the present. Animals are infinitely attentive to now, wholly present with what's in front of them. Entirely themselves, without compromise or dissembling. Pure directness of being, the soul right in the eyes, brimming to the edges.'
