28 July <br /> <br />Calmly, while sat up friendlies & made noise <br />delight fuller than he can ready sing <br />or studiously say, <br />on hearing that the year had swung to pause <br />and culminated in an abundant thing, <br />came his Lady's birthday. <br /> <br />Dogs fill daylight, doing each other ill: <br />my own in love was lugged so many blocks <br />we had to have a vet. <br />Comes unrepentant round the lustful mongrel <br />again today, glaring at her bandages & locks: <br />his bark has grit. <br /> <br />This screen-porch where my puppy suffers and <br />I swarm I hope with heartless love is now <br />towards the close of day <br />the scene of a vision of friendlies who withstand <br />animal nature so far as to allow <br />grace awhile to stay.<br /><br />John Berryman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/dream-song-106-28-july/
