Banks Lake; dog on alert; poem: His Playground Sniff: nose to the ground; alert: attend to that sound: splash! Muskrat retreats. Sheri Edwards Poetry/Photography/Haiku 04.15.2025 NaPoWriMo
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His Playground

Banks Lake; dog on alert; poem: His Playground Sniff: nose to the ground; alert: attend to that sound: splash! Muskrat retreats. Sheri Edwards Poetry/Photography/Haiku 04.15.2025 NaPoWriMo

His Playground

Sniff: nose to the ground;
alert: attend to that sound:
splash! Muskrat retreats.

Sheri Edwards
Poetry/Photography/Haiku
04.15.2025
NaPoWriMo

Yes indeed: his playground — with his nose to the ground or on each passing reed or grass stalk, he gathers into his memory the scents on his path. Each noise alerts him– a blackbird’s whistle, a fish rising for an insect and splashing back into its home, a muskrat swimming silently by before splashing into the bulrushes, the small fly buzzing by his eyes. All of these will cause him to pay attention, for danger, from which he runs.

This is our silly, cuddly furry friend, Guthrie.

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