Contents | July/August 2002

Also by Cathy Smith Bowers:
Mystery of the Sphinx (2001)
A Little Herbal Primer (2000)
Crepe Myrtles (1998)
Learning How to Pray (1997)

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The Atlantic Monthly | July/August 2002
 
For My Dog, Who Listens to All My Poems

by Cathy Smith Bowers
 
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 How entranced, each time, she sits there,
her eyes, I swear,
filling with tears
at her master's

inimitable brilliance. It's
clear to me what's
bounding through her
head: The greatest,

yet, of all the generations!
My husband says
she's just waiting
for her rations.



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Cathy Smith Bowers is the author of The Love That Ended Yesterday in Texas (1992) and Traveling in Time of Danger (1990).
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The Atlantic Monthly; July/August 2002; For My Dog, Who Listens to All My Poems; Volume 290, No. 1; 144.