Labrador Gratitude

Gratitude poem of the day #2, five lines in iambic pentameter, 11/24/2015
Photos, 1997?, Amos (Lab-Golden mix) & Dani Dog, parents of 10 pups

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I have cohabited with Labradors—

enthusiasm, joy, affection packed

in white and yellow fur—whose appetite

for human hugs and Frisbee games was matched,

or nearly so, by that for hamburger.

--by Mary Campbell