A Small Victory after Chemo

Leash in hand, I trot beside you as we make our daily visit to the mail box.

You lean into the leash, my protector, my friend, as if to say: Hurry.

Heat bakes our bones; breeze tickles our ears a girl and a terrier

Published in A Flicker of Hope: Poems written by a Wegener's Granulomatosis Survivor in 2011.