Searching for survivors (a poem by Taylor Graham)
Talavera As if spilled milk glazed over native sands hard-fired but not unbreakable – my dog pads over porcelain no longer ornamental,...
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SOMERSET SUNSET
Hatch Graham & Judy Taylor Graham
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Lost in foggy dark (a poem by Taylor Graham)
Searching Sutter Slough Memorize these ruts or you’ll never find your own way out. Here’s the one that taps the oil pan. Impossible for...
Our heroes (7)
Taco (Kuskokwim Taco von Flohr) came from Schutzhund breeding, joining our family at 7 weeks old. A serious puppy, he took SAR training...
Believe your dog! (a poem by Taylor Graham)
Hide and Seek I'm scrunched flat in a display case – will you ever find me here? The glass so smudged with seasons and neglect. The room...
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
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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...
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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...
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