| For Ellen
Like a vision quest of kindness and yearning
The best dog the only dog
The soulmate dog is tethered to you
Predestined as if assigned at birth
You meet and she greets you as an adored relative
Suddenly happily returned from a long trip
So as not to risk another disappearance
She adheres to your side resolved to follow you forever
Between you is adoration and admiration
As satisfying as a shared milkshake
In a day perhaps two your life seems
To have had this creature in it always
Her eyes search in crowded places only for you
The door she waits by opens for you alone
At night she sprawls on the floor your shoe as her pillow
And when you are away her dinner lies untouched
Her mournful sigh a bereft comma
In the sentence your absence has written
And at the end of the day each forlorn companion
Is revived by the others sloppy generous love.
—Rachel R. Baum, CPDT-KA | 
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