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Headed out early this morning walking the dogs with a blue sky overhead but a bank of cumulonimbus clouds building to the northwest with a faint shard of a rainbow base hanging on that horizon. By the end of our walk, the clouds had moved east and we returned home in a light sun-shower. He came to bed late, settled in next to her and in the morning left only his mortal remains

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Date: 5/25/2020 8:49:00 AM
Intriguing juxtaposition. A haunting write. ~mo
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D.W. Rodgers
Date: 5/25/2020 9:15:00 AM
Thanks, the mix came about from this morning's dog walk and the memory of a friend's sister to whom this happened and the phrase on mortal remains was hanging in my head. Undoubtedly, the present covid-19 miasma was also a factor.

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