Dog Gone

(Dedicated to the memory of Lizaveta of Seppala 2 November 2002 — 11 August 2018)

 

gypsy eyes

 

missing
    Lizzy
    died
    on a hot
    august day
    sixteen
    months ago

nearly sixteen
    years old
    gone
    nowhere
    just invisible now
    her collar
    on my right arm

gypsy eyes
    follow
    my every move
    from nowhere

 

      — J. Jeffrey Bragg (8 December 2019)