for my grandson Dylan

Walking out along the road
that ends a hundred yards
south of the house I built
at Big Lagoon we came
my son and I to where we
could look down
on Agate Beach and there
below us standing on a dune
in fading sunlight color matching
perfectly the tawny sand
a cougar so I said hey Daniel
look, a lion and he said
aw dad it's just a dog
but then the animal
ran like a streak
straight up the bank
its long tail trailing
out behind and my excited
ten year old exclaimed
"That was a CAT!"