Why?
Why does she run,
always out of reach,
twisting halfway
in a leaping dodge through the fresh powder
and over the melting riparian edge
with that sly and challenging smirk,
that furrowed brow?
All day, I thought it
-play-, thought
-pack hierarchy-, thought
-willful child-,
which I accepted, of course.
Leashes are to be used sparingly.
Should I have even been asking?
It only occured to me
after some time had passed-
she was trying to show me the
(secret)
and that I, being only human,
couldn’t follow all the way.