Aki will not teach me

how she reduces the world to one thing

a yellow spot on the snow

that she will not leave until it reveals

everything about the dog that made it.

Nor will she share her power

to grow in mass

until I can not shift her even

after we have both grown cold from the winter wind.

Is it wrong to envy her these superpowers

her ability to achieve true clarity

and physical transformation

while all I gain is frustration?

She is, after all, only a dog.