other animals

Why not a sonnet while the dog
sleeps her little sleep before bed
while I write a sonnet while the
dog sleeps before night in which we
might dream a scurry of squirrels

free from bonnets and the snores of
little dogs resting before the
big sleep while I write what might one
day snore into a sonnet for

a little whitening dog who
sleeps her little dog sleep here on
the sofa minutes before bed

where a big sleep may creep unto
all sleeping dogs creeping to sleep