"The Dog in the Night," "It began with a dog in the night. I had drifted into that strange juncture between wakefulness and sleeplessness, that time when the mind goes into free association. I interpreted the dog's bark as a warning. The idea morphed into larger thoughts of a general human carelessness that builds from neighborhood degradation to degradation of our planet."The next morning she began her poem with that barking dog, and coupled it with an image of Sirius, the dog star, where some believe there may be a life-sustaining planet.
from Tom Chandler: The Providence Journal: Poetry corner: Climate change prods the imagination
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