"The Little Dog "

Nicholas Sarah and Daniel
our three children
attended a small rural
Indiana Elementary School
in a town called Rome City
they started right out
in the first grade
after an hour long bus ride
from time to time
I went to pick them up
like when Sarah
got her hand caught
in between the double pole
supports at the bottom
of the big school flagpole
Larry the principal called me
I went immediately
as I pulled into the parking lot
next to the playground
a small fox terrier styled dog
alone approached the steps
of the high metal slide
walked up the steps
and slid down the slide
what was he thinking
Sarahs was alittle frightened
until her hand was freed
then there was the time
I shut her hand
in the car door
but that is another story
I saw the little dog often
and laughed everytime