Poem Reviews: Two Dogs (Charles Simic)

An old dog afraid of his own shadow
In some Southern town.
The story told me by a woman going blind,
One fine summer evening
As shadows were creeping
Out of the New Hampshire woods,
A long street with just a worried dog
And a couple of dusty chickens,
And all that sun beating down
In that nameless Southern town.

It made me remember the Germans marching
Past our house in 1944.
The way everybody stood on the sidewalk
Watching them out of the corner of the eye,
The earth trembling, death going by...
A little white dog ran into the street
And got entangled with the soldiers' feet.
A kick made him fly as if he had wings.
That's what I keep seeing!
Night coming down. A dog with wings.

The story narrated by a woman going blind underline the importance of her story, probably the last one, she saw the dog afraid of his own shadow, probably afraid of the external environment, like the blind woman, that cannot be avoid the danger, she needs to develop the other senses.
In the second stanza the danger are the Germans' soldiers, that during the war they will kill innocent people, they will exterminate the weak, like the dog with the wings, that he will fly towards the liberty.