Playful rat terrier with ball
prancing triumphantly
invoking her regal dignity;
four-legged, conquering
Kahn entering the wooden
fenced city, blue ball clenched
in death grip by jagged teeth
‘All hail the hero dog!’
Slobber-coated, bell-encasing
rubber sphere lays in the grass
where pretending-truculence
dog has dropped it to subjugate
knotted rope segment instead;
fickle, dog-gone it.
Ball without dog.
Ponderable polemics, poetic 