the Us

Four hair-scraggled legs

dangle together

skimming the surface.

The toes break

the seductive stream

and contemplate submersion.

But the playful legs

are attached

to rational beings

concerned little with the surface,

and the stream, and the legs,

and the hair, and the submersion

but contemplate

the togetherness

the we

the Us.

And as the four legs dangle

together, we submerge in the Us.