A boy's fetching poem about his dog

Posted on Apr 30, 2008 By Julia Szabo Comments (1)

On this, the last day of National Poetry Month, FetchDog friend Raphael Pierson-Sante, age 8, gave us this minimalist free verse about his dog Nelly.

Look out, New Yorker poets: this pre-teen polymath does his own drawings, too.

If I Were My Dog
 
If I were Nelly, I might not get up and beg
For my food or steal from the counter

If I were Nelly, I might not bark to go out
To romp and play and run about

But I hope I would do the good things she does,
Like kiss people when they are feeling sad.

And when I pet or stroke her,
She always returns with a loving lick.

If I were Nelly, I might do annoying things,
But I would always be forgiven.

Because I love Nelly too. 

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