March 13 is National K9 Veterans Day, to honor military and other working dogs, which prompted this poem. We’ve had other SAR dogs over the years, but here are the ones who appeared in dreams I remember most vividly.
Dream Partners
The old dogs come back sometimes in dream,
portal to memory and regret, longing and wonder,
veteran-dogs of so many searches for the lost –
Caprice reporting back in dream to tell me
she’s safe on the other side, she’ll find
me when I get there too;
Roxy leaping from rock to rock in dream-
creek, rock to star to star, looking back – am
I following her on the infinite adventure?
Sardy floating dreamwise through a cellar door
to let me know she’s with me beyond
the universe of physics….
The old dogs – opening portals beyond
my human senses, human knowing – waiting
for me on the other side.
~ Taylor Graham
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