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  DOBERMANN

 Spare of flank
 and bright of eye
 he passed the quiet waters by
 hours or was it years ago

 Grown now
 a mean machine 
 with forward-looming
 tripod stance
 angular
 head swivelling
 on pivotal neck

 Mighty in battle
 and fearing no evil
 he's positioning himself
 to be leader of the pack
 of prisoners in the house
 but still prostrates himself
 before what matters
 like the old man
 (it's a matter of form)
  and he's master of that  

 Watch the terrible
 periscope of his eye
 as it rotates
 in the sesamoid skull 
 muscles braced for at tack
 what is his prey?

 On an outing
 birds give
 an excuse to run
 like Nijinsky
 in three bounds
 he's gone
 on the wheels of the wind
 the warlock sheers and turns
 flying with birds and their shadows
 across the horizon 

 When he returns
 you know he cares
 of what use
 is the majestic slope
 of those shoulders
 the massive shovel of the snout
 the chisel teeth
 and the hungry look
 of that serrulated chest? 

 While we imagine he's
 a deterrant to thieves
 he's passing the time
 deconstructing furniture
 so when I come home
 the chairs lie in pieces
 the bed is unsprung
 then he fears
 both rod and staff
 and lies quaking outside 

 Pardon your iniquity Leroi
 and the mischief in your heart
 today I looked outside to see
 a snowfield of feathers in the yard
 you killed a bird at last? 

 Fiend!
 now you have murdered my pillow.


	Rosemary Raiche.