OUR FRIEND THE DOG 



in which you shiver; to remark 

 with stupefaction that the rain 

 does not fall inside the houses, 

 that water is cold, uninhabitable 

 and dangerous, while fire is 

 beneficent at a distance, but ter- 

 rible when you come too near; 

 to observe that the meadows, 

 the farm-yards and sometimes 

 the roads are haunted by giant 

 creatures with threatening horns, 

 creatures good-natured, perhaps, 

 and, at any rate, silent, creatures 

 who allow you to sniff at them 

 HUH 



