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summer_jackelSilver-coated, dappled
she slipped though high gray arms of waves
that did not drown her.
She had shown a leathern coat
you did not try to steal, or hide away.
From the stories you had learned
instead to let her go
into that dark element she called her own.
Standing on the shore, uneasy
paws shying from the water.
A forest creature tasting salt,
braving ground as changing as the strand:
a place for her return.
she slipped though high gray arms of waves
that did not drown her.
She had shown a leathern coat
you did not try to steal, or hide away.
From the stories you had learned
instead to let her go
into that dark element she called her own.
Standing on the shore, uneasy
paws shying from the water.
A forest creature tasting salt,
braving ground as changing as the strand:
a place for her return.
