For Nine-Week-Old Mira

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For Nine-Week-Old Mira

This fall, Sounds True is publishing a box set of teaching conversations based on the poems in my book Reduced to Joy. The poems are the teachers and unfold the journey from our head to our heart. For the next two months, I'm happy to be previewing poems and reflections from the box set. We recently lost our beloved dog-child Mira, a yellow lab whose eyes you could live in and whose breathing touch had become home. It's been a hard loss. I found this poem I wrote when we first brought her home over thirteen years ago. For Nine-Week-Old

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