DNA On Iona
by Leonie Charlton
Black and tan border collie
broad-backed as the Suffolk tup by the hostel
pads by on time-loosened pasterns
he holds my gaze, I see them then
those lean ancestors, still coming by, going by
in his wool-flecked eye.
Black and tan border collie
broad-backed as the Suffolk tup by the hostel
pads by on time-loosened pasterns
he holds my gaze, I see them then
those lean ancestors, still coming by, going by
in his wool-flecked eye.
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