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Something I think about more often than is perhaps normal is that cats & dogs didn’t used to watch TV: their eyes couldn’t see images on old CRT televisions.

This then is a poem about a dog who gets a new TV and reaches a new level of understanding, which he then tries to communicate to the cat.

The cat is, obviously, not that interested.

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The Transcendence of Dog

The visions in the box

Have taken solid form

Their muffled cries

Are now life size

They call to us both

Don’t you hear them?

Transfix your gaze

Upon these rectangular waves

The noise is coalescing

Into pictorial blessings

They call to us both

Can’t you hear them?

I am one with the imagery

The off-kilter symmetry

The glorious haze

Of all these grays

They call to us both

Won’t you hear them?