Muzzle

This is for all you little dogs out there, and for all you old dogs, too.

MUZZLE

A little dog,
but her bark cracks sonic codes.
It could be heard three blocks down.
She ruffed at
a white cat,
a female jogger, 
a man walking his granddaughter to the bus.
The next day,
I put a muzzle on her.
Before we made it to the cat,
she stripped off the mask.
It lay tangled on the road.
She had a world to wake,
and no time to waste.