The Hole
I stepped into a hole
into the deepening darkness, I did go
at first, a foot drowned in the water puddled
then the calf and knee were scuttled,
then deeper yet, the leg was stuck
pulled further in the blackened muck
I pulled, I tugged as it dislodged my sneaker and my sock
as my leg and foot released, now naked along the icy rocks.
Looking back as I walked away
my dog dug down in the puddled quay
pulling up the sock for display
shaking wildly as if it were prey.
The hole grew deeper, darker in the wind
and the puddled water was set to spin
in a whirlpool twirling out and in
and stepping back with bark and vocalized chagrin
my dog and I slipped safely to the house within.
Just a silly expulsion
tale of my foot's locomotion
and the sneaker is lost
the other to be tossed.
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