Getting Acquainted
I spend most of my time playing alpha female for my pack of dogs. Lucy (Boston terrier), Harley (chihuahua). Hershey (miniature dachshund) and Jasper (standard schnauzer) are my entertainment and sometimes muses. Jasper is a puppy mill rescue dog and I'm in the intital stages of writing a series of vignettes of his life since the rescue contrasted with eduaction about rescues and puppy mills. I do actually have other interests than writing and my dogs. I love to scrapbook, watch ice hockey, listen to a variety of music genres and reading. My parents both were avid readers and passed that love on to me. I'll read a cereal box if you set it in front of me!
Coping
Coping

Duty calls.
Time to repay
my debt to her.
I am not ready.

My numbed mind
cannot wrap around
her fragile form
in a railed bed--

Existing

Hold tight to emotions.
No tears, no anger,
only the fear
of a little girl.

Witnessing
slow death.
She suffers quietly--

Alone

Protecting her girls,
she locks us out,
pushes us away--

Mom
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