GroundDog Day Investigation

                                                                                                                                                                                   

On our morning walk,

Moose spotted a mound

of dirt atop the drifted sea

of snow.

 

He crawled between
the barbed-wire fence lines

and padded across the frozen tundra

to investigate.

He stuck his nose down into the hole,
sniffed around, left his mark
and returned.

Call it a "GroundDog Day Investigation."

Perhaps it was our neighborhood
pocket gopher, Pri-CILL-a,
who poked out her nose to see
how soon Spring will arrive?