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Animal Grief

She makes us a bed of no expectations...

Dog follows me in my grief,
sensing the tendons
that connected us
as they stretch
past breaking.

We lay together in forest dirt
smelling ferns and rotting wood,
watching a pill bug wander
across her paw.

She makes us a bed
of no expectations
I can rest in today.

I nuzzle her,
she receives my love
like quenching water,
with ease.

Her heavy breath 
trains me to live.

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