11-07-2022, 02:26 PM
We struggled to find a name
hoping to plug a hole or put
an egg back in the nest.
Only eleven weeks, 8.9lbs
we decide on Penny, tho’
my wife has started calling her
Pepper.
She loves that fuzzy bear we bought
at Target, soft as my heart,
which she ravages like she owns it
an owner.
Do you understand how the context of the poem would agree with that phrasing?
On walks people ask what she is
with her tufted, terrier scruff
of a chin and her half-mast ears.
You see how you have a rare opportunity here to be blatant but still subtle?
I say she is everything.
hoping to plug a hole or put
an egg back in the nest.
Only eleven weeks, 8.9lbs
we decide on Penny, tho’
my wife has started calling her
Pepper.
She loves that fuzzy bear we bought
at Target, soft as my heart,
which she ravages like she owns it
an owner.
Do you understand how the context of the poem would agree with that phrasing?
On walks people ask what she is
with her tufted, terrier scruff
of a chin and her half-mast ears.
You see how you have a rare opportunity here to be blatant but still subtle?
I say she is everything.