Tag Archives: dogs

I Drove A Car Last Night

*WARNING*GRAPHIC CONTENT* (This poem is about cruelty to animals. This is sadly a true story. The police are not providing animal control services, though they get county funding to do so. There is a small understaffed & underfunded nonprofit clinic … Continue reading

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Cake

Bumpy was barking each bark louder and louder as the cat ate cake Was her bark to let me know, or did she want to eat it?  

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Midnight

Yesterday midnight ran away but she turned up today and the dogs wanted to play and chased her up a tree so I climbed a ladder and brought her down and prey is now free from predator and she’s resting … Continue reading

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One Eyed Dog

A feral dog showed up outside Uncle Bobby’s farm a few weeks ago mangy and too thin, her left eye was a pool of puss and blood we took her home, cleaned her up and got her some food we … Continue reading

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My One Wish

All day long I am in-and-out of the barn, grabbing a pick-ax or a shovel or a rake or a cup of coffee and a moment for few pages in a book or my notebook and a pen, or replacement … Continue reading

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Dogs Of War

Once in a while our dog Pali will find a deer bone or antler and she’ll be so proud, slobbering all over herself and everything else just chomping away without a care in the world and she’ll be content and … Continue reading

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Goats & Noses

One of our goats died the other day not that we pick favorites, but Momi was my favorite… the sweetest little goat that ever was, the most peaceful, delicate always happy to see you never mean… I went to chop … Continue reading

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Coming home after a short trip to the farm supply cooperative

The animals are all quiet which usually means they did something terrible dogs terrorizing cats cats terrorizing one another goats terrorizing sheep all hell was breaking loose not ten minutes ago but now? not a peep the chickens sit quietly … Continue reading

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Elegy For Fluffy

Stop this senseless violence strong against weak rich against poor this dog-eat-chicken world I can’t take any more a lot of good chickens have been eaten for fun but the dogs just keep smiling knowing not what they’ve done tried … Continue reading

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Maple

Maple, oh Maple you’re just a little puppy almost shot by a farmer   Maple, oh Maple named by WWOOFers eating pancakes when the farmer grabbed his gun   Maple, oh Maple people think that you’re a girl just because … Continue reading

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