<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Dog Around the Block</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Dog around the block, sniff,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Hydrant sniffing, corner, grating,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Sniffing, always, starting forward,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Backward, dragging, sniffing backward,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Leash at taut, leash at dangle,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Leash in people’s feet entangle—</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Sniffing dog, apprised of smellings,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Love of life, and fronts of dwellings,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Meeting enemies,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Loving old acquaintance, sniff,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Sniffing hydrant for reminders,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Leg against the wall, raise,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Leaving grating, corner greeting,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Chance for meeting, sniff, meeting,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Meeting, telling, news of smelling,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Nose to tail, tail to nose,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Rigid, careful, pose,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Liking, partly liking, hating,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Then another hydrant, grating,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Leash at taut, leash at dangle,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Tangle, sniff, untangle,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Dog around the block, sniff.</span><div style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">E. B. White</span></div></div></body></html>