Exhausted, your prostate yourself,
legs aloft and crooked,
chin tilted towards some ceiling corner
as if to suggest you were focused
on anything but us.
Still,
you follow footsteps with a beady eye,
wriggle your spine against tile,
happiness thumping in rapid, swishing beats.
As Lillian shared a lovely doggy snap with us tonight, I thought I’d include a sketch I did last month. I’m currently 9,000 words deep in NaNoWriMo, but when I’m not writing I have a go at improving my drawing skills, which mainly involves many hours of looking, sketching, going ‘well that’s shit”, erasing and trying again.
Carol J Forrester 
Dogs have an infinite capacity for happiness, especially when their humans are near. Nice poem and drawing combo, Carol.
How you drawn it?
Hope you drawn it!
Nice sketch 👍🤝
this is adorable!
I really enjoyed both sketches: the poem and the drawing!
Happiness from a dog’s point of view! I love your quadrille and your sketch, Carol. These lines reminded me of Jasper, our little terrier who has been gone twelve years now and who we still miss:
‘legs aloft and crooked,
chin tilted towards some ceiling corner
as if to suggest you were focused
on anything but us’.
Ah….you liked our singing Percy! He’s quite the dog 🙂 My son told us when they got him, he was supposed to be a small dog. Well, we met him when he was 3 months old and knew from the size of his paws he was NOT going to be small 🙂 But, we had no idea he’d be musical 🙂
Loved this post….and most especially these words:
“happiness thumping in rapid, swishing beats.”
Is there anything or anyone who can show their happiness as effusively as a dog’s behind with tail wagging and hips wagging too? They just WRIGGLE with happiness!
I think, no dog can hide his true contentment…