Dharma.
| Publisher | Modern Poetry Association |
| Publication | Poetry |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0032-2032 |
| Issues per Year | 12 |
| Volume | v172 |
| Issue | n5 |
| Published | 1998-08-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | Billy Collins |
The way the dog trots out the front door
every morning
without a hat or an umbrella,
without any money
or the keys to her dog house
never fails to fill the saucer of my heart
with milky admiration.
Who provides a finer example
of a life without encumbrance?
Thoreau in his curtainless hut
with a single plate, a single spoon?
Gandhi with his staff and his holy diapers?
Off she goes into the material world
with nothing but her brown coat
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[This journal article is 216 words long]
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