The dog has cleaned his bowl and his reward is a biscuit, which I put in his mouth like a priest offering the host. I can't bear that trusting face! He asks for bread, expects bread, and I in my power might have given him a stone.
—Jane Kenyon
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from Otherwise: New and Selected Poems, 1996
University of Arkansas Press
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Jane Kenyon
Jane Kenyon (1947-1995), former Poet Laureate of New Hampshire was the author of four volumes of poetry. Her collected poems were published by Graywolf Press in 2007.