Lockdown edit 2 and fro!

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The dog knows.

Held prisoner by the despondent eyes of
our rescue I imagine the dog was a 'rescue' from a shelter, and his eyes are despondent from his time as a 'prisoner', but you are held prisoner by the dogs eyes because you are in a shelter waiting for rescue.
I escape to my garden
with joyous contraband of cigars and booze I don't think the contraband is joyous considering circumstances, maybe more like a fix from an addiction, like a decompression I couldn't consider a joy.

Released in daydream
of garden pubs, disembargoed beers, ii like the disembargoed beers
freely gathered friends all; what makes the friends 'freely gathered' just because it's a daydream and imaginations wander?
with a reignited liberty-
I exhale upon the weeds: I like the use of weeds after cigar.
nature’s non conformers I would think nature's noncomformers are the lawn grasses, the weeds want the yard to confirm.  I'm just being contradictive it's fine.
that thrive; exalted in
our absence 

From my garden, I wilt indoors; nice imagery
an acquiescent hostage keep 
where doubts smoulder and
our happiness
must lie I like the double meaning in 'lie'

We're in a lockdown.

The dog knows.  Does the dog wait for rescue in a shelter?  Does it look at you right now in your lockdown like you looked at him at the shelter.  Were they despondent then?  Does the dog see you now as another inmate in a new shelter?  

I'm not sure the dog knows anything, but I like the displacement of what you seem to know about the dog.  I don't have any advice but thought I'd try and reason against your word choices.  Not sure if I managed to do that either.  Thanks for sharing