Upwind measurement

by

Frank Valentyn

She lies there golden
small brown fluffed patch
gently breeze-stirred
on my balcony
watching the traffic’s progress
ears pricking up at unusual formants
that are simply a transparent norm
from where I sit in my upstairs study

The railing forms a permeable barrier
between two worlds
this, containing sacred basket
and the familiar smells
and that of the outer adventure
leash-bound or in the wind-thrill
of earflapping and wetnosed leaning
across the sill
of ‘car!’'s open window

How she tells the difference
is a secret I’ll never grasp
but with infallible judgement
some pedestrians merit a bark
others a mere lifting of age-blonded eyebrows
and assessment by long-distance sniff
as they pass from mystery to mystery
appraising their own barriers

For Lucy

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Why don't you look at A day in my life
by: Varsha Gurumurthy
from: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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