Poem used for voice over

When it came to editing we thought the sound effects of the dog wasn't enough so we decided to find a poem for a voice over. We used the poem 'What The Dog Perhaps Hears' by Lisel Mueller which we liked as it's from the dog's point of view. I did the voice over for this, we breaked it up so there were pauses and we choose the right scenes for it to be used.

         WHAT THE DOG PERHAPS HEARS

If an inaudible whistle

blown between our lips

can send him home to us, 

then silence is perhaps

the sound of spiders breathing

and roots mining the earth; 

it may be asparagus heaving, 

headfirst, into the light

and the long brown sound

of cracked cups, when it happens. 

We would like to ask the dog

if there is a continuous whir

because the child in the house 

keeps growing, if the snake

really stretches full length

without a click and the sun

breaks through clouds without

a decibel of effort, 

whether in autumn, when the trees

dry up their wells, there isn't a shudder

too high for us to hear.

What is it like up there

above the shut-off level

of our simple ears?

For us there was no birth cry,

the newborn bird is suddenly here, 

the egg broken, the nest alive,

and we heard nothing when the world changed. 

             Lisel Mueller