By Erin Marie Lynch
All the while the dog was dying. I didn’t know. His little heaps of yellow vomit. Damp spots where he...
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- By Nathan HoksIt's confusing, after eating so much cauliflower From the serving tray, to find oneself alone Like this...
- By Katie HartsockMid-morning, a girl and dog attend the woods, the lilies of the valley just shy thin shoots. The Boy...
- By Tina Mozelle BrazielThree hundred twenty is the number of frogs I’ve raised and released during the pandemic. Yes, I’m trying...
- By Derek SheffieldLast patches of snow all but gone and first wildflowers flecking the lawn, I walked out to the shed ...
- By Countee CullenThey in their cruel traps, and we in ours, Survey each other’s rage, and pass the hours Commiserating...
- By Jennifer L. KnoxAbby hates car rides. All buck and thrash, her gray swayback swells and her limbs flail like drumsticks...
- By Betsy FrancoSend to: [email protected] From: [email protected] When writing friends an email I sometimes &p*&%...
- By Talvikki AnselOn the buffy-tan painted house sides there’s a hornets’ nest we let grow, huge domed head, anchored ...
- By Martin DyarOn the phone, when the vet who was waylaid sounded stunned by what Burke had just described, and reasoned...
- By Duane NiatumI. Stars among corn fields above fences the crows line like darkness points, spread over the earth like...
- By Patricia Jabbeh Wesley"Mom, you wouldn't let me adopt a dog in my dream," my daughter tells me. "Really? Go back to your dream...
- By Paisley RekdalSo after M died, she turned to the dog. His copper eyes, the sinewy haunch muscles. The way he perched...
- By Clodagh Beresford DunneRemember your neighbor who mistook a wolf for a dog? He rescued a pup from a storm not realizing it ...
- By Dorothy ChanMy mother warns me not to blow-dry my hair too hard, turning it from black to rust, and I must wear ...
- By Cynthia HuntingtonIs shut out on a balcony above the street. He is a prisoner among us, crying The awful boredom of observation...
- By Connie WanekHe came home from middle school with a wet kitten tucked inside his black leather jacket. He'd found...
- By Matthew Zapruderaway from joy you walk a little missing a tooth discussing famous black dogs on the dead chests of lovers...
- By Kenneth LeeI sit with my thermos of coffee on the mall: a mile-long promenade, arcades of elms flanking a generous...
- By Julian Talamantez Brolaskii had scarcely got acquainted when they took me by the paw & made me even-minded nor did i mind i had...