Dogs On Other Planets Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

dogs on other planets softly zoom

closer now than ever to the moon

they've less to say



when so distracted by the milky way

when bones float almost all away

and arf and bark and woof



won't help them anyway.



dogs on other planets cannot bay.

they wag their tails and try to run

but bounce instead too near the sun



and fetch and carry for no one

where no one tells them stay.

or come.


mary angela douglas 10 august 2019