But it took a moment and a small commitment
To puzzle it out.
She was at the human end of a leash
Stealthy, mostly not by choice.
The fluffy creature on the dog end of the lead
Her ambassador.
Her validation.
The moment reminded me of the joke leashes
I once saw sold and paraded about at Disney.
A stiff leash held by the vacationer
Walking an invisible dog.
Here the dog was walking the invisible woman.
She first appeared to me as a disembodied smile.
Alice’s Cheshire cat.
The rest of her materialized shortly
And so we had a moment,
Real as real gets,
Of acknowledgement,
One phantom to the next.
-PS
“Goes to show you can’t judge a
fish by the hook in its mouth.”
-Lewis Carroll
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