poem for titan

Titan, since you were two,
You've been my old man.
Ten and two.
You're almost my teenager.
Is this how a parent feels?
He grows times seven.
I'll be burying my son-
three by five by six foot hole,
for my big baby,
when he has to go.

all dogs

I think it says something
that you two went together.
I sit on the porch looking across,
stare into green seas of cattle
I see her swimming,
and you waiting excited on the shore.
She was almost amphibian,
but she always came back for you.
She kept you company,
safe from cold and coyotes,
I know you couldn't stand
to leave her up there alone.