Scott Cairns

Scott Cairns is the author of Compass of Affection: New and Selected Poems, and the memoir A Short Trip to the Edge, along with several other books. He is Professor of English at the University of Mis

My Dog and My God

Dec 20, 2012 1 min read Poetry

My dog Sophia sits this evening watching me, attending to my every move. I don’t move much. She has been fed, and walked, and run, and now we sit, amid my study’