Four-Legged Complication

Four-Legged Complication

Reactive to doorbells
and dogs with prick ears

Digs for the center 
of the earth—first clue
brown-encrusted nose

Paws on the counter!
Steals meat thawing or bread 
cooling      She’s a thief

And the shedding

Those eyes—
direct, velvet, present
all complications, forgiven