My breath makes clouds in the air
As I shiver and pull my coat closed
And I sit and watch as a mother walks out of a store
Baby in one arm bag in the other
Across the street a dog is barking
chained to a black wire fence.
Barking for a few moments
Then slouching back over to his dog house
Something else catches my eye
As I turn my head I see two girls
One roughly age eight another about ten.
They are skating on a pond
Spinning around each other
Bundled up
They looked like pink and purple marshmallows
Shouting together
Smiles lighting up their faces.
There is a woman walking her dog on the trail
Talking angrily into her phone
And as I turned back to the dog in the dog house
I moved from the pole I had been leaning on
I went across the street and into a store.
I walked out two minutes later throwing the bone
I had bought into the dog's yard.
I went home.
