V

walk the dog,
inside the scene
another smaller

figure, who has
left the island
and an even smaller dog

tied to an armrest.
inside these,
waves form

on the lazy swell
of a sheltered sea—
the dog looks at the figure

who in his heart
has to fit
and barely does

and in the figure in the
heart
of a dog

what plans
the heart can know
nothing of.