What Now?!:  Puppy Haiku / Dog Haiku
by Melissa S. Anderson

These 300 haiku will make you laugh and nod your head in recognition. It’s all here –  from the eye-rolling silliness and unpredictability of a puppy, to the familiarity and companionship of a grown dog who never quite loses the knack for making you wonder from time to time, What Now?! 

today’s lesson:
it’s hard to fetch a ball
with a frisbee in your mouth

cute little bottom
bouncing
down the stairs

pup, do you know anything
about the bra
on the kitchen floor?

the dog and my beloved
in silhouette
on an evening walk

I bend down to her face
to emphasize No –
she just sniffs my breath

of course
she went through the mud,
of course she did