Henry

Henry, my black and white, 90-pound Berne doodle
Stares out the sliding glass door.

Snow - has taken up residence on the patio furniture,
Furniture that lost its airplane ticket to Florida.
Snow - told the pond and the grass and the decorative rocks,
“Take a break, I got ya covered.”
Snow - sucks up the yellow rays of the sun and blasts them to a blinding white.
Snow, snow, snow.

Cold - rushes in like a 350-pound, NFL lineman
As the door slides open.
Cold, somehow plants a seed in my well protected belly
Then, chills me from the inside out,
Until I feel like a gallon of vanilla ice cream.
Cold - just makes Henry smile.

Henry - like a deer, bounds through the snow
While nuzzling his whole mouth and nose through the upper layer.
Henry - leaps then rolls telling the snow,
“Move over, I got ya covered.”
Henry - finally slows down, lifts his right back leg as high as it will go
And spreads the yellow of the sun to one lonely spot.

A warm, sweet victory.

But I wonder if Google can answer,
“How to train a dog to pee inside - where it is always warm and dry?”