New dog. He came to us less than 24 hours ago thanks to these devoted, caring people.
His arrival, his newness, his dogness seems a great opportunity to link to Mark Doty’s “New Dog” — a poem of such immediacy and accessibility that it changed me the very first time I encountered it. I didn’t need to re-read it, didn’t need a professor to explain its significance. It just is what it is. I still love it.
