[Critique Group 1] Sally's August submission

[Sally Rosenthal]

READING WITH CORKY

 

Bathed in memory's golden glow,

A sixty-year-old image makes me smile:

 

A shy, small girl carrying homemade cookies

And a tattered copy of Beautiful Joe

Settles on the top step of a back porch. 

Despite October's chill and the coming dusk,

She savors these hours between school and supper

When she can claim this time and space as her own.

 

Pressing close in hope of a cookie,

Her Boston terrier gets his wish.

Marshall Saunder's much-loved novel

Of a dog's triumph over abuse

Has made her vow always 

To love animals as much as books.

As shrieks of neighborhood children

playing football fall away,

She draws Corky nearer

And loses herself in printed words of kindness.

 

 

                                Sally Rosenthal

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