Sometimes the dog brings a light chuckle

For she likes to grab a twig as we muddle

Along on our early-morning walk around block

So she can do her thing, and exercise is stock



Part of daily ritual before all other involvements

Whether it be housekeeping, writing or solving

Daily puzzles of life and ongoing construction

Of sites, systems, pictures, sounds and functions



Which brings everything together in bigger pictures

Assembled from pieces molded from dedication pure

And the constant verifications which need be undertaken

To make sure links are accurate and nothing's mistaken



Like the dog's penchant to have her early-morning bark

Which she can find sometimes difficult - a quite funny lark

For often her mouth is already filled with a stick or twig

Then she has to drop it as barks cause her to lose grip ...



- Tristram



Christopher W. Thomas

8:33am Friday 2/20/98