An Abecedarian Eulogy Poem for My Dead Dog

I miss you very much my sweet guy.

Attack dog as he

Bounds up to the fence

Calibrated in

Desperation

Eagerness, eaten up by

Fleas and worms

Gargantuan

Huge-red-dog

Inimitable

Jumping, counter-surfing

Kleptomaniac

Leon, tawny-eyed big

Man on campus

Never better than a nap

On the green

Puppy dirt couch

Questing over walls

Resting

Sanguine, at the end of his

Tether

Ugly and wet at the

Veterinarian

Weaving between garden beds

Yanking, big toothed, on unwilling coats

Zoloft for dogs wasn’t enough