"You gonna eat that?"

~Crocisma, burning bright in the garden~ 

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Handsome Stan and I have returned from our brief Pointer Sister vacation - after a nice visit with my Dad in Virginia.  The infamous pseudo-sisters have been released from the Paw Plaza Hotel and are happy to be home.   More about my trip later...

 ...because for now - I'd like to let you know that a much-loved local poet, Richard Garcia, is the week's Guest Blogger over at The Best American Poetry.  Go and read a bit.  It's great stuff.  Richard is the spouse of the Microbial Lab's very own Poet Laureate, Katherine Williams - and has been mentioned in these pages before (and before that and before even that).  Plus, my ever-charming and interesting lab is mentioned in the comments of his post titled Dogs and Poetry - and a commentor includes this wonderful dog-poem in her comment (sorry Katherine, but I had to see it before next week's lab meeting...):

A Poem by Karen Shephard's Dog, Birch in 'Unleashed: Poems by Writers' Dogs'

"You gonna eat that?
You gonna eat that?
You gonna eat that?

I'll eat that."

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Comments

[Pat]

I love the dog poem!!! After reading it, I realized that my last post was actually a toddler poem in disguise. You've turned me on to a whole new genre.

[Janet]

Oh too funny! That is exactly what a dog would write. Will have to go and read more of her dog's poems.

[Benjamin]

Best poem ever.

[Mike]

I'm jealous that you have three dogs. I test-drove a puppy recently but Champ revealed a dark streak that I didn't know he had.

[Layanee]

Gotta love the dogs.