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“I don’t even want to come in out of the rain.”
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“Snow would be the easy / way out—that softening / sky like a sigh of relief / at finally being allowed / to yield. No dice.”
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Rita Dove, “November for Beginners”
Two dogs, one a black and white husky mix and the other a blue heeler puppy, stand in a dry stick-season field with pale leafless trees beyond. Both dogs are obscured by tall dry brown grass and equally dead flowers, but their attentive ears and high-viz orange vests give their location away.
November 26, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Today in Cattle Thing Can Help: “I know you’re working so I brought you my toy so we can play while you work.”
An adolescent blue heeler puppy stands on a dark-colored rug atop a linoleum floor and looks expectantly up at the camera. A neon yellow and purple braided fleece tug toy is on the floor just in front of her, next to a human’s sandaled foot.
November 20, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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A very happy six months of life to Wayout’s Gone Loud, called Gideon, and sibs. Apocalypse days call for apocalypse dogs, and it’s an honor and brings me such joy to watch this little one learn who she is.
Two dogs trot away from the camera along a trail though an open autumn plain. There are red-branched shrubs to either side, and a line of conifers in the distance meet the blue and clouded sky. The righthand dog is a blue heeler puppy; she is curved slightly in as if looking for guidance from the black and white husky mix. A blue heeler puppy gallops towards the camera with a big open-mouthed smile. In the background, a black and white husky mix stands and watches. They’re on a powerline trail through an open salt marsh. A blue heeler puppy with a half mask sits on a sandy beach and stares up attentively at the camera. There is a bit of sand on her nose as if she’s been digging. A blue heeler puppy lies on a rock-and-sand beach. The ocean stretches beyond, and in the foreground is a Kobo ereader being held by the human to whom the puppy appears to be leashed. The puppy is nibbling on a crab leg that she found and is industriously trying to figure out.
November 12, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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My favorite part of life with cattle things today is that every time I ask a dog, “What are you doing?” the answer is I HELP BETTER in the least helpful but most sincere way possible. Cleaning the yard? Chopping potatoes? Retrieving a ball from inside the temp fencing (again)? Cattle thing can help!
A blue heeler puppy with a half-mask looks up at the camera from between a standing person’s blue-jeaned legs and booted feet. The grass below her feet is autumnal dry and dotted with dead leaves. The puppy’s expression is alert and interested, and her mouth is open in a doggish smile.
November 6, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Transported some sandwiches at a different polling place this evening and was awarded another sticker. Just to write a thousand times on the chalkboard, “I will not troll the internet with an extended voted-twice bit,” before they’d let me leave.
An “I voted” sticker rests on a silvery metal surface. The sticker bears a child’s drawing. The top half presumably represents an American flag, with red and white stripes and seven white stars on a navy field. The bottom half shows a grey rock meeting blue ocean. A green state of New Hampshire with a smiley face and one hand is fishing in the ocean. The sticker says “I voted” in black text.
November 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Almost forgot to grab a sticker, but the poll workers had my back.
An “I voted” sticker held by a white person over a cream-colored tile floor. The sticker bears a drawing of a child’s(?) majestic moose atop a cliff with an autumn forest below and white-capped mountain in the background. “I voted” is written in green across the blue sky. The shape of New Hampshire stands in for the letter O.
November 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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“Every time we love we’re saying, / Let it ride / and what’s on the table / is the rent money. / And every time we stride again / out into the crisp desert night / our fists shoved deep into empty pockets / we know ourselves for losers.”

Jack McCarthy, “The Spaces Between”
A black and white husky mix dog wearing an orange high-visibility blanket runs through an open forest. He’s focused on something ahead and out of frame. A black and white husky mix dog wearing an orange high-visibility blanket stands in a sun-drenched open forest. A black and white husky mix dog walks away from the camera along a trail that leads into a sunlit field. Tall trees stretch to the sky to either side.
November 2, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Baby’s first beach.
October 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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T vibes so husky now that I have a houseful of cattle dogs, which is wild given that he’s really quite cattle doggy by comparison when hanging with literally anything else.
A black and white husky mix dog is turning at speed at the muddy edge of a wide bay. The sky is heavily clouded, which a strip of glowing sunrise between distant tree-lined shore and clouds.
October 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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When I talk about Gideon’s “you see this shit?” check-in face, is what I mean. Cracks me up every. Single. Time.
A lanky blue heeler puppy stands on the grass beside a wide pond. She’s looking across the water at something out of frame. The trees on the far side are green and yellow and orange and the water reflects the cotton-candy near-twilight clouds above. Same puppy in the same spot. She now looks back and directly at the camera with an alert, deeply judgmental expression.
October 28, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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How it started / how it’s going.
A blue heeler puppy with a half-mask stands with her front paws up on a standing person’s denim shorts. She is smiling and quite young, with ears just starting to stand upright, and the person is stretching an arm down into the frame to help support her. Same puppy is now growing into a lanky near-adolescent and stands with front paws up on a standing person’s black and white plaid pants. She is coiled and ready to leap skyward. Same puppy has flung herself up so her face is exiting the top of the frame; she is a motion blur.
October 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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“And I feel terrible about the whole argument between / free will and destiny. All that I want is everything I want. / Music and rain and slight variations between the two.”

Clay Matthews, “Poem in Which I Sort of Break Down”
A blue heeler puppy stands on a mossy stump in an open forest. The trees are mostly still green but there are dry brown leaves on the ground. The puppy is looking over her shoulder at something out of frame.
October 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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“There is more and more I tell no one, / strangers nor loves. / This slips into the heart / without hurry, as if it had never been. / And yet, among the trees, something has changed. / Something looks back from the trees, / and knows me for who I am.”
A blue heeler puppy wearing a teal collar stands amid tall grass and goldenrod in front of an open forest. She is looking away from the camera into the trees; her posture is alert and curious.
September 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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“I want someone / to have a crush on me / for a change”

R. Eirik Ott, “Crushworthy”

(The puppy is steadfast in her quest to convince Titus that she is Very Grown Up and Extremely Cool. Gettin’ there!)

#apocalypsedogs #dogwalking #morningwalk #touchgrass #dogs #poetry #theyregooddogsbrent
Two dogs stand between a treeline to the right and a salt marsh at low tide to the left. One is a blue heeler puppy, trundling industriously through the tall grass in front of a black and white dog who watches with curiosity. A black and white dog walks a trail through an open forest. A blue heeler puppy tags along very close at his side. The black and white dog walks away from the camera along a trail through an open forest. The blue heeler puppy stands a bit behind him and off to the left, looking back at the camera to make sure the photographer is still there. The black and white dog continues through the forest, enjoying this casual hike in nature. The blue heeler puppy, now reassured that her person is still following, runs to catch up to the adult dog.
September 24, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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“That’s me, looking for a chance to call / home and say, I have not abandoned you, / Hope.”
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-Bruce Bond, “Circle”

#morningwalk #touchgrass #dogwalking #otherpeoplespoetry #morelight
Two dogs stand in an open forest in morning light. A blue heeler puppy is upright with front feet on a fallen log. She looks up the trail at a black and white dog who is looking back at her. Both dogs are attentive, each waiting for the other to resume a game of chase.
September 23, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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“Ten-year-olds / should stick with burning houses, car wrecks, / ships going down—earthbound, tangible / disasters, arenas / where they can be heroes. You can run / back into a burning house, sinking ships / have lifeboats, the truck will come / with their ladders, if you jump / you will be saved.”
A blue heeler puppy sits on the grass smiling up at the camera. One front paw is raised and she is coiled to jump up on the person whose blue-leaned leg is visible on the lounge chair in the left half of frame.
September 17, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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“The first day it feels like fall / I want to tell my secrets / recklessly until there is nothing / you don’t know that would make / your heart change years from now.”
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-Stacie Cassarino, “Midwest Eclogue”
A black and white dog walks away from the camera along a wide flat trail. There are trees, many birches, to either side. The trail is lightly sprinkled with the season’s earliest fallen and drying leaves.
September 14, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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“Say, It doesn’t matter. Say, That would be / enough. Say you’d still want this: us alive, / right here, feeling lucky.”

- Ada Limón, “The Conditional”

#morningwalk #dogwalking #otherpeoplespoetry #touchgrass #dogs
A black and white dog with pointy ears stands on a rise at the edge of a saltmarsh, just beyond a stand of yellow flowers. Trees stretch to the left and back of the frame below an overcast sky. An aged blue heeler mix dog with one pointy and one half-flopped ear sits in tall dry grass. The saltmarsh and trees and overcast sky are slightly out of focus beyond her. Her collar tag reads “Apocalypse Dog.”
September 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Praise the poem / I was trying to finish / when you showed up / at my door.
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Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz, “Isn’t Every Love Poem an Unfinished Love Poem?”
A blue heeler puppy gazes up at the camera. She stands on wet dead grass near the edge of a bay, with sharp rock and water beyond. A blue heeler puppy stands on the rocky shore of a bay. She is facing away from the camera and looking into the distance. A steep sandy bank rises to her left beyond scrubby shoreline trees; the water stretches to the right, meeting the evening sky. A blue heeler puppy gallops towards the camera along the rocky shore of a bay. Her tail is up and she is very serious about running as fast as her baby legs will go.
August 29, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Tried to draft an emotional support puppy for this week’s @1000yearspath.bsky.social session, but turns out she rolls great on initiative and really wants to eat my mic.
A white person wearing a black tank top and gaming headset leans slightly back from a blue heeler puppy, who is trying very hard to jump up off their lap and grab the headset mic in her sharp little teeth.
August 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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“How am I supposed to nap under these conditions*?”
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*Wearing a harness
An 11-week-old blue heeler puppy is lying on a fuzzy brown bed atop blue and yellow puzzle mats and looking up at the camera with skepticism. Her ears are both upright and the strap of a purple harness is visible near her left shoulder.
August 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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“I loved / what was not slave or instinct, that when you turn to me
it is a choice / […] / more light, more light, / your hand against my shoulder, the image / of the one who taught me disobedience / is the first right of being alive.”

-Paisley Redkal, “Why Some Girls Love Horses”

#justpuppythings
A blue heeler puppy with one upright and one upright-but-devil-tipped ear stands with her front paws up on the side of metal exercise pen, a blurry grassy yard and white fence beyond. Her nose is dirty and her mouth is open; there is dirt from digging on her tongue as well.
July 31, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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We’ve all been there.
July 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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“But hearts don’t break, / y’all, / they bruise and get better. / We were never tragedies. / We were emergencies. / You call 9 – 1 – 1. / Tell them I’m having a fantastic time.”

-Buddy Wakefield, “We are emergencies”

#dogs #morningwalk #poetry
A ten-week-old blue heeler puppy walks towards the camera along a dead long bordered by stream, with a forested far riverbank beyond. A blue heeler puppy sprints towards the camera along a pine-needle path in the woods. A blue heeler puppy gallops along a grassy riverbank. Her ears and tail are up and her mouth is open as if smiling.
July 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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“Do the Norfolk fens instead. Better / yet, East Anglia in its future state, quite utterly / submerged like a sodden Constable. Come on, / get your coat, I’ll show you. You won’t need your shoes.”
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Emily Hasler, “Cartography for Beginners”
Two dogs sit on the forest floor among ferns smiling up at the camera. One is a ten-week-old blue heeler puppy with both ears up but the tips still a little devilish. The other is a distinguished old lady of a blue heeler mix with one ear up and the other half-flopped.
July 23, 2025 at 11:31 PM