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I get mileage not
only out of my kids,

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but also out of my
animals, out of my pets.

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And this one was inspired, if I
can use that word, by the fact

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that I realized one day, how
different our dog's hearing

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obviously was from our hearing.

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How he was scared by sounds
that we could barely hear.

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And sometimes, things
we couldn't hear at all.

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"What the Dog Perhaps Hears."

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If an inaudible whistle
blown between our lips

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can send him home
to us, then silence

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is perhaps the sound of
spiders breathing and roots

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mining the earth.

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It may be asparagus
heaving, headfirst,

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into the light and the
long brown sound of cracked

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cups, when it happens.

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We would like to
ask the dog if there

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is a continuous whir because
the child in the house

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keeps growing.

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If the snake really
stretches full length

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without a click and the
sun breaks through clouds

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without a decibel of effort.

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Whether in autumn, when the
leaves when the trees dry up

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their wells, there
isn't a shudder too high

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for us to hear.

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What is it like up there
above the shut-off level

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of our simple ears?

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For us there was no birth cry,
the newborn bird is suddenly

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here, the egg broken,
the nest alive,

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and we heard nothing
when the world changed."

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