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Tolstoy’s Dog What is it about the lavender grey dog hanging around the men playing with a piece of straw as if it were a stick while Moscow burns behind them? What is it that makes her lie across my mind as if she might be what all those words were about? 6

Fragment How can I forget the feel of her ribs under my fingertips, the thump of her slow heart into my hand? I will be the frost running silver threads through brown leaves under her feet – 7

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Tolstoy’s Dog

What is it about the lavender grey dog hanging around the men playing with a piece of straw as if it were a stick while Moscow burns behind them? What is it that makes her lie across my mind as if she might be what all those words were about?

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