black bowler leather jacket sitting cross-legged on the street corner, hand on the black dog's back muddy paws tucked in black on night sheen from the streetlight caught like starlight
Going increasingly underground, lost in his own hometown. You may see him but don't think it's him you see. Keeps walking until he finds himself again. Keeps walking. Keeps walking.
Sitting in his lawnchair on the front porch, wool-muffled, stargazing, sipping hot tea, he happened to spot the silent blur of a panicstricken black dog dart across the pine-shadowed snow.