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An apology to William Doreski and Nancy Henry

By Chip Cain | Published April 24, 2008

If you read today’s poem ‘Death of An Old Dog’ earlier today and cameback to it again and thought the author’s name is different, you would be correct. I errantly assiged the poem to William Doreski when it was written by Nancy Henry. Both poets are personal favorites of mine which is in part why [...]

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She lies down there to be sipped up by the dewy grasses

By Chip Cain | Published April 24, 2008

Death of the Old Dog It is time for the old dog to slip down beneath the grass, to taste the sharp iron of earth on her broad lolling tongue, to yield the sap of her eyes to the blind worm and her thick brown pelt to the cold roots of the twisted Northern Spy [...]

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