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Dog Watching the Waves<\/strong> Long-eared and scruffy, he\u2019s mesmerised by the waves scampering towards him like rabbits instantly sucked back into a calm that falls over the edge to water another world, a better world perhaps, and blessing that world with fallen boats and a sun that visits each day before dropping over their horizon to the next world and the next \u2013 like a scone tumbling off the top of a many tiered cake stand, thinks the dog lost in Victoriana, untaught, primitive, the sky grey and the grey waves writing the ocean as the dog could write a poem about gull sounds and the sounds of our voices riding the breeze to enlighten the next world about the dog we\u2019re taking pictures of, an animal just like us, who rarely gets it right \u2013 the slant of things, the dropping off of things \u2013 until one day we\u2019ll die as lovers torn apart: the me who is adoring a dog among friends will be wrenched from the me who is thinking, I am adoring this dog<\/em> \u2013 my narrator, my wide-awake, who says, sweeter than anything, I\u2019ll miss you when we\u2019re gone<\/em> because whatever it is that we will die into will be worse than rabbits slipping off one world into the next so that we may never see the beach grow empty and quiet with someone realising, hey, the dog\u2019s not a poet but a poor lost dog, as we are all on some level strays for whom the sea carries not marvels but remembered sounds of our mothers\u2019 panting breaths.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jeri Onitskansky<\/strong> is a Jungian analyst and poet based in High Barnet. \u00a0She won first prize in the 2012 Ledbury poetry competition and publishes regularly in Poetry Review.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dog Watching the Waves Aldeburgh, 2011 Long-eared and scruffy, he\u2019s mesmerised by the waves scampering towards him like rabbits instantly sucked back into a calm that falls over the edge to water another world, a better world perhaps, and blessing that world with fallen boats and a sun that visits each day before dropping […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3996"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3998,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions\/3998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAldeburgh, 2011
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