That was a dog named for "The Night With No Moon,"
Muku, who lived to be 14 and was a queen if ever there was one,
and never had any fear of any kind of any creature,
but perfectly gentle, and was blind for the last six years
of her life.
And you had to tell people that she was blind.
And sometimes, they'd find it hard to believe.
And she was pretty extraordinary.
She caught a rat three months after she went blind.
[LAUGHTER]
One more of these elegy poems for another dog.
"I Look For You at the Bend" it's called.
"I look for you my, curl of sleep.
My breathing wave on the night shore,
my star in the fog of morning.
I think you could always find me.
I call to you under my breath.
I whisper to you through the hours,
all your names my ear of shadow.
I think you can always hear me.
I wait for you, my promised day.
My time again, my homecoming, my being where you wait for me.
I think always of you waiting.