Thursday, April 4, 2019

Chasing the Demon Dog


Hound of the Baskervilles
Sidney Paget

My first sighting and visitation of the demon dog was at age three
at night
in my knotty pine bedroom 
on the second floor of the parsonage 
provided to my preacher man father

And thus began my lifetime dance 
with pursuing apparitions of death

Hounds of heaven and hell
and everywhere between

Once feared, now embraced

Closest companions 

ushering me into new realms of living

~ zjm