I wish I were a hound dog

Dozing on the porch

Greeting every one with

my melodic baritone,

Sad eyes, and, metronome tail.

I wish I were a hound dog:

Patrolling my usual beat

Down the lane,

Through the garden,

‘round the pond.

I wish I were a hound dog:

Chasing rabbits through the meadow,

Keeping the foxes at bay,

baying the moon

as she cruises the skies,

lamenting her absence  on the

Nights when beneath strange she wtaks

I wish were a hound dog

Alert on the veranda snifting the air

For that one scent that would

Send me crashing through

fern and fen to that place

 where the days are  cool

 the nights warm and the rabbits

 slow.