Lizzie’s Nose-Texted “Ode to Dogwoods”

Lizzie's Ode to Dogwood

Lizzie, my border terrier, has such a beautiful nose smudging script.  Her “Ode to Dogwoods” in the photo above was written on the front window of my Subaru Outback.  I am assuming that she wrote the tribute to the white dogwood tree, the one that was planted in our backyard, when she was just a puppy.  

The Dogwood in Our Backyard

That tree, as you can see, blocks the view of garbage cans that could otherwise be spotted from the kitchen window.  (Well that’s my view, not hers.)   

Ode to Dogwoods

By Lizzie   

Window text messages

Are like dogwood petals.

Transitory in nature.

Cool spring temperatures

Allow dogs to go for rides 

And wait in cars for their owners to buy

Garden supplies.

Dog text messages

Sprout on windows,

Gleaming in the morning sun.

Dogwood petals float to the ground,

While the moist nose messages of dogs disappear

Behind paper towels

On the winds of human irritation.

Next year the “Ode to Dogwoods” will look like

White Dogteeth on the window

And

I will bite

Those

Paper Towels.

The End

Lizzie, Contemplating Next Year's Ode