Sensing

written after The Wind Chime Tree

It was almost as if
Solo knew

sensing the violence
of steel blade slicing
through soft flesh

she sat on her hind legs
beside the wind chime tree
her eyes fixed on mine
then on the moving mobiles
as they twisted and trembled
on bare branches
tinkling in winter cold

then in solidarity she joined in
whimpering across the valley
my dog whimpered for
a boy departed she had
never known

Reviews

[Stella Armour]

Chris, dogs are so highly sensitive to mood she must have picked up on the sad vibrations and mourned in her own special way ..