Today's poem is by Max Sessner (trans. Francesca Bell)

Man With Dog
       

When she left him he
bought himself a dog the
coat brown and white a
pretty animal I saw them
often in the fields behind
the freeway he quiet the
dog playful and yappy
always bringing pieces of wood
that he had to throw in
a high arc the
people say he must have
moved away one day
and no one realized it
but I've a notion that
one time instead of a stick
the dog brought the
whole forest and then
into it they both
disappeared

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from Whoever Drowned Here
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