Saturday Morning: We “Were” Running

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WE WERE RUNNING

in memory of Annie Zeke*

We were running up the slope of a hill,
that dog and I, an early winter rain
beginning to fall, wind-driven and sharp,
the clouds so black the edges of the hills
were etched and incandescent. That dog
and I were running, the two of us
apart and yet together, and even now,
in the solitude of a quiet hour—the days
and that dog long gone—I can follow
those far-blown traces of unexpected joy
and find my way back again: heart wild,
lungs filling with the breath of winter,
and that dog beside me running headlong
into the world without end.

~ Peter Everwine, “We Were Running” in A Small Clearing (Aureole Press, 2016)

Notes:

  • Photo: Susan’s Photo of our Zeke* (RIP) taken at Baker Park.
  • Poem: Thank you The Hammock Papers

22 thoughts on “Saturday Morning: We “Were” Running”

  1. How to explain that DEEP, deep yearning for our canine friends who left us (always waaaayyy) too early? And what a great tribute!

  7. My Ellie was your Zeke. She ran many a long mile and many a forest trail with me. My heart still holds her memory with tender joy and the sorrow that lives in harmony with the joy Beaumont brings me.

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