Dog Park

Let off a lead,
freedom bounds 
as if all joy is held
within a bouncing ball
to be retrieved
and brought back to lay
at a lover's feet. Then 
sent off to do again.

Smells wafting 
from tree trunks, 
fence posts and tufted grass
flood the air with molecules 
sending canine bladders
into spasm eager 
to mark the moment
as their own.

Focussed on what is firm
beneath their feet, 
every nerve they have
is wired to ‘now’
whilst I, looking on,
try and retrieve phantoms
bouncing across what was
and what is yet to come.

dogjoytimefree verse

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