Old Dog - Stella Murphy Grass Green Life in the forest is

Life in the forest is dangerous and precarious

your brain

age wear to the binding

consisting of the squid

by Léon Gozlan / The Devil’s Sonata

Old Dog - Stella Murphy Grass Green Life in the forest isOld Dog by Stella Murphy & poem by Tom Grindrod 20 page, 5 x 7 inch 4 color risograph booklet published by Perfectly Acceptable *** The book is an illustrated response to Tom's poem. I was immediately drawn to the jazz rhythm of the language, it had a frantic energy which I thought would marry well with an anxious character busying about the home. The 'Tessa' old dog referenced throughout the poem becomes a metaphor for finding peace and comfort at