Walkabout - Edit

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In the pet store, her eyes
were like a puppiesI like this opening twist, puppies are a treat so the look goes both ways, attention  is like a treat to puppies.
before it’s given a treat.

It was November, I understand this as setting, and appreciate that it's not the intro.  It seems out of place as the only part not you're not observing her, but almost seems necessary to explain the last stanza
and the ground was wet
from last nights rain.night's

Outside a coffee house
a busker played Hank Williams,
and she gave him a cigarette
in lieu of change.she seems happy on a 'date' doing things that are pleasurable to her, giving change to a buskers is a small gesture of the generosity and love she feels first shown to us by the puppies 

When we got to the park,
she said some trees look better
without their leaves. So leafless trees remind me of age, losing hair, growing.  This is like she's saying she appreciates the company she's with, appreciates the little things, even things that seem broken or dismayed.  And amongst all the setting, place to place, this is what the narrators observing,