Dog Songs: Poems Hardcover - 2013

Details

• Title Dog Songs: Poems
• Author Mary Oliver
• Binding Hardcover
• Edition First Edition
• Pages 144
• Volumes 1
• Language ENG
• Publisher Penguin Press, New York
• Date 2013-10-08
• Illustrated Yes
• ISBN 9781594204784 / 1594204780
• Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
• Dimensions 8.6 x 6.2 x 0.9 in (21.84 x 15.75 x 2.29 cm)
• Ages 18 to UP years
• Grade levels 13 - UP
• Themes
  • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Topical: Women's Interest
• Library of Congress subjects Dogs, Human-animal relationships
• Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013028114
• Dewey Decimal Code 811

FIRST TIME PERCY CAME BACK

The first time Percy came back
he was not sailing on a cloud.
He was loping along the sand as though
he had come a great way.
“Percy,” I cried out, and reached to him—
 

those white curls—
but he was unreachable. As music
is present yet you can’t touch it.
“Yes, it’s all different,” he said.
“You’re going to be very surprised.”
But I wasn’t thinking of that. I only
wanted to hold him. “Listen,” he said.
“I miss that too.
And now you’ll be telling stories
 

of my coming back
and they won’t be false, and they won’t be true,
but they’ll be real.”
And. then, as he used to, he said, “Let’s go!”
And we walked down the beach together.