Him and the Dog by Shannon Castor

Him and the Dog

She stands birching
Towards river

Black metal liquid
Sweating paper Southeast

Her pepper white skin flapping
Cinnamon into the wind

The insects detour the trail of deterrent
Caught on a different path

Antennae tangle with confusion
Their multiple facet eyes

Cast diamond suns, garnet imaginings
To the dog panting on the porch

Its lapping lazy tongue sinks cool
Into slobber water

Splashes the bare soles of the gray beard
Rusted owner

Tin stone he sits heavy
A monument, a broomstick used well

He is dreaming of the river
The current of summer sound

Rising like a swelling orchestra
Finding the peak of music

They strum, working in the pit
Knee high straw itching sideways

Serrated rubbing
The cricket echoes

This is his enclosure
Their enclosure

Him and the dog

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Shannon Castor is a multidisciplinary artist and writer working in film, photography, oil and acrylic painting. She has a BFA in Cross Media from the Oregon College of Art and Craft and a MFA in Art and Ecology from the Burren College of Art, National University of Galway, Ireland. More of her work can be found at https://shannoncastor.wixsite.com/castor.

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