Go Fetch

“It all belies our existence; we wait, and are still denied.”1

“C’mon Rover. That’s a little dramatic don’t you think?” asked Edward. 

“A whistle blows, the ball is out of sight. Soon part of me will explore the deep and dark.”2

“Don’t be like that,” replied Edward.

Rover sat with his head on his hands. A sigh escaped his lungs to crawl along the floor and fade away. 

“To have seen what I have seen, see what I see.3 No ball was found from where you did throw.”

Edward opened his hand. Inside was a ball, a tennis ball. Rover’s eyes looked up, a spark twinkled in his eye, his ears raised. 

“Do you want the ball?” asked Edward.

“Most quiet need, by sun …”4

Edward pulled back his arm and threw. Rover dashed through the grass. In Edward’s hand the tennis ball sat. 

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This is for a dVerse prompt: To participate, you take the line of poetry that I will give you below and insert it into your prose. […]

For Prosery, your prose—fiction or nonfiction—may be up to 144 words, not including the title.

The line of poetry: “It all belies
Our existence; we wait, and are still denied.”

From
“Winter-Lull” by D.H. Lawrence

I used a few lines of poetry for this one:

• 1 – from “Winter-Lull” by D.H. Lawrence
• 2- from “The ball poem” by John Berryman
• 3 – from “Hamlet” by Shakespeare
• 4 – from “How Do I Love Thee?” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning