Before I Was Hers

You can know an animal - or a person, for that matter - in an instant, really, 

though your understanding can go on unfolding for years.

~

Mark Doty  

Sweeter Than Soap

I have a little dog who likes to nap with me.
He climbs on my body and puts his face in my neck.
He is sweeter than soap.
He is more wonderful than a diamond necklace,
which can't even bark... 

 ~

Mary Oliver 

WW 2.05.14: Blue Shadows

 "and then she seems entirely like what she is:
a white dog,
less white suddenly, against the snow,"

From "White Dog" by Carl Phillips

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