<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=576883" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Keeper Of The Beast And Chestnut</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Little fingers rattle the cage of the mysterious union of boy and dog<br>A dog filled with an empty stomach but full of ringworms<br>My new dog, whom I urged to pet, but was scolded - he might bite<br>My dog covered with filth like the chimney smoke of silt, released in the Industrial Age refineries<br>Whose sad bark translated to: I’m a water-dog, purify me! Purify my soul! <br>That water being an angel brushing off the graining tombstone of what once was<br>My dog, a polished broad pup, sloppily wet but content<br>Whose coat was itchy but clean from concentrated dish detergent<br>Who was wondering of his new surroundings, <br>and strange new noises to bark loudly at, in the night<br>Whose vet trips and vitamins pumped him to an enormous size<br>Whose runs in the yard became Indian midget trails<br>My dog, the dumb one, who would see-saw with me<br>Who would slide down the sliding board, like a rambunctious child, head first<br>Who loved to bite through things except my arm, shoved into his jaws, as a test he always passed<br>Whose claws were raptor sharp, and provided the dirt digging ability to escape into neighbor’s plots<br>My dog, who outweighed me by fifty pounds and made sure strangers knew this before they reached the front step <br>My dog, black haired, a thick virgin forest of midnight, streaming and shedding in the summer time<br>Whose lapping pink fleshed tongue in such a hot day, would yearn for his bucket of water<br>Whose chest muscles were defined like the promontory coastlines of North and South Carolina<br>Who understood that I would eventually come home after grade school, pleased to be in his presence too<br>My dog, the chain snapper, the car chaser, the wood eater, the newly layered sod displacer<br>My dog with flaws, disobedient like me, unwilling to take orders<br>My dog, prone to be whacked with the paper on his rump, the thud of a beefy drum smacked on an indifferent animal<br>My dog, a friend, never capable of backstabbing for a percentage<br>My dog, who lived with me, then sent to live on a farm, I know had even I better life than I could give him</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Christopher+J.+Grasso">Christopher J. Grasso</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=576883" data-title="The Keeper Of The Beast And Chestnut de Christopher J. Grasso" data-description="Little fingers rattle the cage of the mysterious union of boy and dog A dog filled with an empty stomach but full of ringworms My new dog, whom I urged to pet, but was scolded - he might bite My dog covered with filth like the chimney smoke of sil..."></div> </div> </div>

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