Poetry & Photography

Mountaintop Cottage Studios

creative journeys...

photography & poetry

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Evil Wears A Shock Collar

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The animal growls

Menacingly

Continually lunging

Behind the invisible barrier

At my frightened

And blind chocolate lab

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Hurrying to pack

This trips memory

I shiver in a

Ninety degree drive
Twenty hours round trip

Every other week

Living out of suitcases

Leaves me feeling disordered
I.N.T.J.s are seldom

Good captives…

The exception, I am not

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Reading to pass the time...

I am struck by:

“Never shall I forget those moments

that murdered my God

and my soul

and turned my dreams into ashes.”

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I think of the neighbor

Who electrifies

His yard to keep in

A rottweiler
And shoots at

Nutrias with a bb gun

For entertainment
And then,

I understand

A bit better

Wiesel’s

“Night”*

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(May 31,2006~Somewhere in the Smokies)

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Debora Short

published: http://www.abovegroundtesting.com/ July 2006

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