Luria Park, I knew since my youth
On a field trip there, I found an ant creature
Upon magnifying the water in a microscope
It was there I learned that Lexi loved the water
and was afraid to swim
And walking back from there with her
We bumped into and a cousin of Lexi’s, Nico
and his kind owner Jim
who suggested the path to the nearby lake
where we’d later teach her to swim
Then there are the two parks nearby
which Evi and Anyu once graced
which I go to for a change of pace
Lexi even discovered the dog park
by her own intuitive pulling one day
And my brother suggested the nearby nature center
which offered its own mystical stream
journey under the beltway
And that bike ride down Camelot which
revealed the trail with a new, wide stream
that I have yet to take her to
And for all this wonder,
she just wants to be fetching in the water