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For the Love of Lout, my Dog
Eunice de Souza’s poems often reference a landscape of relationships – to cities, lovers, pets and poetry itself
For the love of Lout, my dog,
A howling pup abandoned
At my doorstep
I’ll wake at four to walk him.
He’s a friendly dog,
A sniffer of crotches.
The good ladies of the
neighbourhood
Avoid him. So do the men.
He knows too many secrets.
[Excerpted with permission from Learn From the Almond Leaf, Eunice de Souza, Poetrywala (An imprint of Paperwall Media & Publishing)]
Eunice de Souza is the author of several books of poems. Her groundbreaking debut Fix was published in 1979 followed by Women in Dutch Painting (1988), Ways of Belonging (1990), A Necklace of Skulls (2009). Her poems are spare, unsettling, ironic and lyrical. They often reference a landscape of relationships – to cities, lovers, pets and poetry itself.
From HT Brunch, October 16, 2016
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