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[muninnhuginn]

Canine puzzlement illuminating loss: Hiding

Another ostensibly.simple verse (do I like my poetry simple? sometimes), with bald statements, almost entirely objective description. It's the action, all those active verbs in the simple present tense vividly conjuring the dog's activities. The lists of actions especially give an urgent energetic feel. The changes in tense are interesting too: the two in the past--finite and not continuous--bookend all but the opening line, containing all that present action.

What's not said, of course, is what the poet feels about the loss. Nor are these feelings transferred to the dog: it's a very doggy dog, no anthropomorphism here. Yet the structure and the present business point up the stillness of absence.

A beaut.