The black & white dog at the end of her life

learned she could lift up her head 
like a coyote and sing to the deer skull
hanging on the wall, to blue petunias 
that would outlast her by a day
to the monsoon downpour she hated 
and the peanut butter pills she loved. 
She could howl a counterpoint to a video 
of herself baying at a bouquet of rusty bells 
hanging from the back porch beam.

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