A Poem: 21st C Haiku

When you sit down beside your dog as he lays flat in the grass,
be sure to position your buttocks more or less alongside the dog’s head.
Be sure not to sit so that you must stretch forward to caress your dog.
For, when you lie back in the grass, as you surely will,
you will be too far away to rest your hand on your dog’s side in communion

This article appears in October 2012.