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Thank you so much for: Thank you so much for visiting this poem, and for your kind comment.  I am especially encounraged by your comment about the portrait from John's early days with Jesus.  I sometimes wonder if he was not bullied for being perceived as "different," and this may have brought him to the very close friendship with Jesus.  And he alone went into the high priest's house on that awful night preceding Good Friday, and also stood at the cross---the emblem and meas of the ultimate bullying.  I had, last night while writing this, thought of the possibilities of at least one other poem about young John, and your words have encouraged me to proceed with a draft of that idea.  Thank you so very, very much.

Excellent!!!: Excellent!!!

I think the eerie atmostphere: I think the eerie atmostphere of this poem is underscored most successfully by the Moon's yawn in the final line.

I hope you will finish more: I hope you will finish more hanging projects and post them here.  I do not always keep up well with my reading committments.  My health seems to be declining a little more rapidly this summer than I had expected, and I cannot always concentrate on my reading.

I am an old man, and I have: I am an old man, and I have been reading Poetry for fifty years as of this past April.  Your Poem is one of the best I have ever read at PostPoems.  It resonates with profoud human wisdom and experience, and it is written in a conversational manner, like words overheard in a live setting in real time.  That gives it a tremendous immediacy and power.

As a dog lover myself, and: As a dog lover myself, and the person who belongs to an elderly chihuahua who is beginning to ail, I understand your feelings, as I anticipate the inevitable and unavoidable day.  However, as a Christian, I believe that Christ's sacrifice on the cross began the slow restoration of the whole Creation back to its pristine condition which it will achieve on what Saint Paul called "the Day of Christ Jesus" in the Philippian epistle.  He also said the whole creation eagerly awaits the revealing of God's children; and that which is deceased cannot eagerly await  I believe, on this basis, that all into which God has breathed life will be restored to eternal life---this is God's plan, from the beginning, anyhow.  Those who have chosen to do unrepented evil will also choose to live apart from God, in the hell prepared for the devil and his demons.  Since animals cannot choose sin, they need not choose hell, so, as I hold in Faith, all of the sinless creation will be restored, including Agnes and all the dogs I have loved through my life.   That said, I do think the fourth line sounds a little self-serving.  I doubt you meant it that way, but it does need some repair to say it a little better than it is now. Still, this is a great tribute to Agnes, and a reminder to appreciate the time we have with our pets while we have it. s