I had a dream about Sonny,<\/p>\n
my long gone husky.<\/p>\n
We were fishing together<\/p>\n
on the Detroit Dam.<\/p>\n
We had never fished in real life.<\/p>\n
Detroit, Oregon.<\/p>\n
Dumb.<\/p>\n
Molalla, Oregon.<\/p>\n
Smart.<\/p>\n
Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n
Dumb.<\/p>\n
Klamath Falls.<\/p>\n
Smart.<\/p>\n
I cast my line into the fake lake,<\/p>\n
for phony rainbow trout.<\/p>\n
I smoked a cigarette<\/p>\n
I never smoked.<\/p>\n
Sonny was giddy at the wall,<\/p>\n
primed, spring-loaded.<\/p>\n
She shook that husky look:<\/p>\n
mischief<\/i>.<\/p>\n
A blue-eyed mischief in one eye.<\/p>\n
\u201cMatt,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBlow up the dam!<\/p>\n
Let the Santiam run wild!<\/p>\n
Like I once did!<\/p>\n
Put me in your new novel,<\/p>\n
the watershed novel,<\/p>\n
let me ride shotgun,<\/p>\n
I’ll be the sidekick,<\/p>\n
a funny sleuth,<\/p>\n
howling clues,<\/p>\n
bolting the detective<\/p>\n
into adventure<\/p>\n
and revelation,<\/p>\n
like we used to.<\/p>\n
I pulled the car over<\/p>\n
and wrote this all down.<\/p>\n
The novel was right there,<\/p>\n
in my husky’s one blue eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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