Sleeping Dogs
There is a subordinate hush beneath the silence
like father's anger here in the long quiet dark
of this country road that seems suspect soft
and warm as a lamb yet we both know from
tales told around campfires when we were
small to leave the savage stillness alone.
About the Author: Lindsay McLeod lives down the Port in South Australia. His writing has most recently found homes in EPHEMERAL ELEGIES, THE HUMAN WRITERS, THE MARTELLO, MENISCUS, TIPTON POETRY, BOOK of MATCHES and LITERARY HEIST.
Image Credit: Jan Ciągliński Study of a sleeping dog for the “Portrait of Prince Golitsyn” (1910) Public domain image courtesy of Artvee
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