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SOMERSET SUNSET
Hatch Graham & Judy Taylor Graham
Welcome to Somerset Sunset, adventures with our search & rescue dogs and Taylor Graham's poetry
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Following a search dog in the dark (a poem by Taylor Graham)
Clair de lune The mountains finally shed a perfect moon. Two in the morning. We’ve had the black for tracing brushy hill and frozen bog,...
Managing dogs on a search
Printed in THE NATIONAL SHERIFF (February-March 1985
Our heroes (6)
Pattycake was unexpected – our "international shepherd," daughter of a traveling-salesman (Tervuren by his looks, from somewhere on the...
Covering the ground (a poem by Taylor Graham)
Boots Off the Trail for the Bell Tower girls, search of summer 1984 My boots bore me summer-long searching up Iron Mountain and down...
A water-search poem for Roxy
Go to the River's Edge This is where someone saw the two of them go in – the girl on a boulder by snowmelt current, her fiancé with...
Our heroes (5)
Roxy (Kuskokwim Odyssey) was daughter of my search dog Sardy. I didn’t mean to keep a pup, but when puppy buyers arrived, I found myself...
For Pepper, a poem
Hiking Old Dog to the Alpine Lake She takes the lead with unaccustomed spryness, remembering this route through sagebrush, bitterbrush,...
Boy who hugged a tree (stump)
"Search for Eli" by Judy Graham, reprinted in NASAR's RESPONSE! magazine from SAR Dog ALERT newsletter
An earthquake poem by Taylor Graham
Quake Labyrinth We climbed stairs to the landing, and a door, but it was jammed. Another de-construct of earthquake that knocked down...
Our heroes (4)
Pepper (Kuskokwim Jalapeña T.D.) was Hatch's search partner with WOOF and CARDA, a four-legged lady tough enough to let her handler know...
Learning to get down (a poem by Taylor Graham)
On a search, dog & handler may need to be lowered - over a cliff or the side of a building, for example. Many handlers learn rappelling,...
In the air with dog
an article first appearing in the NASAR (National Association for Search and Rescue) magazine, RESPONSE, in 1983
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