Today's poem is by Jason Tandon

Man Paddling Canoe with Dog
       

The sky so white
there is no sky.
The water,
a tarnished plate of silver.

The dog sits dutifully.
No, sits like a king
who says nothing,
who looks around
unmoved,

his golden robe
shedding.

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from This Far North
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