Playing with the Moon, a poem by David Lee Garrison

This poem by David Lee Garrison appeared a few days ago on Verse Daily, the largest online poetry anthology in the country.

Playing with the Moon 

My dog doesn’t howl at the moon,
she plays with it, even though

she’s slowing down and soon
will crawl into the lap of the universe.

Ninety-eight in human years,
she wraps night sky around her

in the summer like a patchwork
quilt of warmth and wonder,

knowing she belongs to the cosmos,
to everything that was and is.