Old Dog |Poetry| Edward Manzi

 

Old Dog
~ Edward Manzi 
 
Greet the world with noise 
 
The roses your mother got you two weeks ago
 
Let me appreciate closed eyes 
 
Let me not talk of such things 
 
I have taken too many showers
 
Orchards are not appeasing 
 
Incomplete until euphoria hits 
 
It will start again tomorrow 
 
Dangling from within
 
Angel faced and struggling
 
She doesn’t chase the stick anymore
 
The choice to drop out forever 
 
We felt similar 
 
I snuggled with her and I could tell
 
The old dog is depressed and dying 







Edward Manzi lives in Tahoe City, CA. His poems have been published in Another Chicago Magazine, Bodega, Hobart, and others. He also has poems forthcoming in North Dakota Review and Frontier Poetry. His debut full-length prose poetry collection, Prisoner Cowboy, was published in 2023 with CW Books. He has an MFA from the University of New Hampshire. He can be connected with at Ed@Manzzzz.bsky.social.