We're All Born Knowing All (edit)

[vagabond]

 
 
All Dogs go to Heaven 

In summer, 
you hold the sun, whole    what is a whole ray? you can´t divide radiation, you can´t hold it either. but light can be transformed into warmth.
rays whir softly
in your arms.
You feel the golden
retriever’s fur grow cold
between your fingers,
see it floating above you       I´d write envision or imagine instead of see
like an ember fading
upward in air.  
 
In autumn,
you strain to remember
the sun In Sunday school.    suggest to decapitalize “In Sunday..”
Beneath the doctrine,
the dogma, and the deity   you could leave "the deity" out cause it implies a choice of gods, which doesn´t fit to dogma and doctrine (and the latter two are redundant). 
the world is shaded
an unfamiliar mauve.   mauve like priest´s robes? guessing wildly again.
A preacher preaches that a dog
can never jump through the hoops of life     somehow
And land in heaven.   
maybe those last three lines belong at the beginning of the stanza. first the doubts concerning the preacher´s statement, then the strain to remember the sun (if that is a metaphor for faith), then the distance to faith (“world shaded unfamiliar”)  
 
In Winter,
you hear a white quite crack      
beneath the principles electric voice.   maybe replace “electric” with “burned out” or something to make it go along with ash better
His words fall like ash    
over the assembly;
lecturing on attendance,
absence, and a peer passing
over. A moment of silence.
 
In spring,
nothing grows back.             if the poem wants to convey the belief that nothing grows back then spring is not the association I´d choose.
Each new leaf only impersonates
last years deadfall.        that sentence seems to completely negate life just because it is finite.  was that really the intent?  biologically new leaves grow out of last years deadfall but that´s a different story.
This star is an imposter.        if this star is an impostor then is the subject turning to another one? you can only ever have a belief (or not), but not really proof it right or wrong.

try to make it clearer. does that thought about dogs not entering heaven evoke doubts about the subject´s own resurrection in the subject or does the s. simply feel pity for the dog? or is it something different?
is there even  really a written dogma/ doctrine that clearly specifies that animals don´t go to heaven? should a believer care what one preacher elaborates?