Thursday 11 July 2024

11th July 2024


 


heavy clouds

marching through Nashville, Tennessee

American Nazis


© Rachel Green July 2024


how my parents got her,

I have no idea, but Shane

(female) was a terrier-whippet cross

with a beautiful nature.


my sister bred rabbits

which she sold for pocket money

and would let them loose in the back garden

where Shane would watch over them

and herd them away from the flower beds.


I don't know why I dreamed of her;

I was nine or ten when she died,

but she was alive and healthy in my head

despite the passing of fifty years.

I wonder if anyone would dream of me

fifty years after I have gone

and let me live again, 

if just for a moment.


© Rachel Green July 2024


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