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					| Wherein I Suspect That My Father Has Been Reincarnated as a Dogby
 Sherry Hughes Beasley
 The moon sways in the black waterOf my neighbor's pond,
 And in the sky the actual moon,
 
 Wolf moon, dominates the night.
 It is the cue for my father
 Who has stood on the ridge the last evenings
 
 And howled, to begin again. I know
 It is him: midnights in our house
 He'd stand at the living room window
 
 Gazing at the moon
 While ghostly curls from his cigarette
 Converged around his blue
 
 Striped pajamas, his head
 With its muss of black hair, his hand
 Like a separate entity holding
 
 The white cylinder with its dime-sized
 Grainy red glow
 On the end.
 
 I see his dark shape outlined against the horizon,
 His head tilted back, his jaws open.
 I think he is recalling me
 
 Or some glimmer of what
 It was like to be human
 Which for him, now,
 
 Can only consist
 Of broken links
 And vague memories.
 
 
 Copyright by Sherry Hughes Beasley.
 Used with the author's permission.
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 Sherry Beasley is the award-winning author of four poetry chapbooks and her work has appeared in numerous literary journals. Founder and senior editor of Astounding Beauty Ruffian Press, she is also a professional designer and artisan. Sherry, a native Virginian, lives near the Blue Ridge mountains.   
 
 
																	
							
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											| dotief@comcast.net: Very nice! Many of us feel the signs that connect us to those who have gone before.
 Posted 10/31/2010 08:48 AM
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