Cheap

Yesterday drinking too much cheap white wine,
today a copper red Irish setter comes swimming —
long nose gentlemanly, sleek as a yacht's prow,
steady as a Cambridge lady's bicycle on a straight path
over four feet pedaling gently, in the clear green underneath —
eyes filling with tears again: too many blue skies, brief showers, gray sunshine.

Patricia Goedicke
Colorado Review
Volume XXXIII, Number 1
Spring 2006

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