Ghostly Dog

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A dog barks far away-faint, trembling with exhaustion

The bark reaches my ears translucent with distance.

It throbs like a heart or like rain on a window,

It sweetens the night with longing, with faint sadness

Like thoughts of broken homes, and friends, and lovers gone.

 

It stops and then begins again-barely audible,

Like a tattered memory, like a heartache,

That lonely mournful bark, so faint, so sweet, so sad

So far away, almost lost by the edge of silence.

 

Pete