It's Still Life

A Poem Starting with the Title of a Poem by Delmore Schwartz

Dogs are shakespearean, children are strangers

that little boy who just kicked his sister
that little girl who’s afraid of the dark
that little boy who won’t eat his greens
that little girl’s wearing fairy wings

and children chase after patches of sunlight

that dog who’s happy about things unimportant
that dog with a toothy growl on its breath
that dog whose tail wags without reason
that dog gleams when it’s wet

and my dogs still linger in landscapes

 
  
4b 18.06 Face the Music Dogs Are Shakespearean, Children Are Strangers, BY DELMORE SCHWARTZ. ©️ Misky 2020