From Stealing Eternity, edited by Stewart Burnett, published in 2008. This poem was first published in North Shore magazine in 2005.
a rascally lab-shepherd
and grumpy old cat
didn’t much like each other,
both bristled to share
the same family,
same house.
After the fire,
finding them:
curled up—
for the first time
together—
under the upstairs rug,
the cat who couldn’t
swat death away,
gathered into
the dog’s clumsy paws.
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