9IF DOGS COULD READ (and I believe they can - just not in the way we translate the printed word) then this collection should appeal to those who care about dogs: their behaviors, their importance in our lives, and their noble quality which most of us (including the author) strive unsuccessfully to attain. For those of us not fixated upon dogs, you will find the majority of poems addressing family and death of family, the Vietnam War, a thankfully brief selection of limericks, vintage North Carolina postcards in a Haiku format, and other mostly personal observations, to include a neighborhood suicide, growing older, Autumn, and rain.