Thanks, Sheila. I appreciate that
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Beautiful piece
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Lawrence Upton
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> Crossing the low dune to the beach, the dog
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> turned west. That seemed deliberate. I gave
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> her some slack; and was pulled, following, to see
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> many gulls in gaggle at the head, a spit,
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> and the gulls were spitting! so, possibilities
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> of beached fish. As we neared, they all skittered
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> and rose; the dog leapt into a big rush --
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> a fair-sized southern whiting pecked half clean
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> on gull-foot-trampled sand, and she galloping off --
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> And seemed reluctant to return. At last
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> came back to see what I was pointing to.
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> She sniffed but was unsure. Too much spattering
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> of grit? It never bothered her before --
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> I bent down, inhaling; and lifted it;
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> half fish, its bottom side still unblemished,
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> smelling fresh to me; tossed it into waves,
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> the dog after it, jumping in, sniffing;
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> and, after some minutes, she thrust her head
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> underwater, and pulled it out, dropped it
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> at the sea edge and danced away and back and
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> around but never touched the corpse again.
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> Richard Kessling / Lawrence Upton
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