Ode To Our Dog Back Then Or We Had A Dog Like That Too, Charlie Schulz

[to Poochum-Woochum-Tika-Takka-Toochum Ondline Ladale]

mix and match paperdoll wardrobe outfits,
interchangeable board game pieces
make for fun in summer

or out
and bubble wands
with the concomitant green or red

plastic bottle with the yellow label;
the comic coloured bubbles
over our heads with

o clouds, that sailed over us then
and the new moon lawn
the paperbacks on their way

(o yay!) in the afternoon mail--
our little dog wags her tail
knowing we want to play

and we'll come rushing down the
porch steps on our way
to sparkling circles in the yard

she'll take just to show us all
that running is Heaven,
oh doggie on fire like the wind
you run run run just like it says in the readers- and

just this short
of the U.S. Poodle Olympic Team
for 1961.

mary angela douglas 17 december 2015