These few poems are from the original 1,673 page manuscript The Dark Bark found buried in The Yard (as the poor animals who are to be euthanized call it) at the pound in Brighton Beach. I write elsewhere of the strange and tragic events that led me to this manuscript - my depression, initial contacts with the spirit world, inadvertent destruction of the complete posthumous poems of Shakespeare as communicated to me by the spirit Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the establishment of communication with the dead animal world (Thank you, Ted Hughes) and, finally communication with the great dog’s spirit with the assistance of the KA of W.H Auden.