For today's prompt, write an animal poem. Your poem can mention an animal in its title or somewhere in the body of the poem. The animal doesn't have to be the main focus of the poem, but your poem should mention an animal somewhere in it.
Zoe rings my doorbell.
Zoe is a dog
big enough
smart enough
to ring a doorbell
with her nose
I don't see her do it
I suppose I am asleep
because she has made it
all the way home
Five years and three thousand miles
on her own
on paws of ash
Why do we need something
to take form
to arrive on our doorsteps
to be reassured
that loyalty and love
cannot be incinerated
like hair and fur
and the bones
we were both made of
whose different shapes
we would hold and shake
eyes different and the same, looking
creating there loyalty and love
true to last
(heavy paw)
(sweet heart)
(spirit guide)
simple enormous companion
before and after
eviscerating fire
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