Untitled ("It is with and without music")

The speaker watches a dog on the porch, shares its loneliness, and says hunting is impossible when something is wrong with the bells. The closing speaker searches for a voice and calls themself the saint in the revirbation.

The dog knows something the speaker also knows, but neither leaves the house's threshold. The speaker listens for a wrongness in the bells and for a voice, joining domestic unease with religious language.

The poem opens 'It is with and without music' and describes a dog that 'has not left / the front porch', a porch with 'Just wooden lifts / And lonelyness', the warning 'YA' can not hunt / When there is / something wrong / with the way / the bells ring', and the close 'And I am the saint / in the revirbation'.

Waiting and wrong-sounding bells create unease that the poem never explains. The speaker ends by placing themself inside the echo rather than outside it.