Welcome to Poetry Month on The Voice of Dog. 

This is Rob MacWolf, your fellow traveler, and all this month we’ll again be bring you poems from and for the furry community. Today we present a poem by NightEyes DaySpring, who is a known troublemaker rumored to have a penchant for coffee and an interest in dead, ancient civilizations. Information about his writing and his poetry chapbook Therianthropic Dreams can be found at nighteyes-dayspring.com.

Read by Ta’kom Ironhoof, the Equine Charmer.

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a poem by NightEyes DaySpring, who is a known

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at nighteyes-dayspring.com.

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