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- By Erin Marie LynchAll the while the dog was dying.
I didn’t know. His little heaps
of yellow vomit. Damp spots
where … - 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 Jennifer L. KnoxAbby hates car rides. All buck and thrash,
her gray swayback swells and her limbs
flail like drumsticks… - By Betsy Franco
- 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
… - 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
… - 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…