Dog Training

(Ignoring the expert)

The dog trainer repeats

They don’t have to greet

Every new smell, they meet

Nose to tail, nose to street

Yet why not take it all in?

Pausing to the wind

Facing the next new grin

Pondering what sin

To behold—

Everything!

Here today, to let it all in

And what’s the win?

With all the rush

Then miss the hush

Miss the beauty under brush

They don’t have to greet

Every new smell, they meet

The dog trainer repeats…

Yet with following their lead

They have something to teach

Me Lingering here, within reach

Of the divine underneath…

Everything!

Who is training who?