For those of you who may be new to this blog, "Vidal" is my guide dog who appears in the photo at the top of our site. He is a yellow labrador and he comes from Guiding Eyes for the Blind in Yorktown Heights, New York. He is ten years old and starting to think about his coming retirement. He’s thinking that as a retired guide dog in Iowa City that perhaps he might want to think about a literary life. The post below, "The Secrets of Nature" is his first ever effort at poetry. I think it looks a lot like the Finnish poet Arvo Turtianen: direct, elemental, but still philosophical…
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Planet of the Blind 