“Ai, how many times have I envied his tail
as we walked together on the shores of the sea
in the lonely winter of Isla Negra
where the wintering birds filled the sky
and my hairy dog was jumping about
full of the voltage of the sea’s movement:
my wandering dog, sniffing away
with his golden tail held high,
face to face with the ocean’s spray.”

From “A Dog Has Died”, poem by Pablo Neruda

Joanna Karpowicz / „Anubis with a dog”, 54 x 65 cm, acrylic on canvas, 2016