This poem was published in The Avenue Journal, Issue X: Dogs
Still
by Richard Downing
Years later, searching
for something lost
beneath the dresser,
a dust bunny,
her hair still entangled
in my hand.
Richard Downing has won the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Contest, New Delta Review’s Matt Clark Prize, and the Solstice Editors’ Award. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and his work appears nationally and internationally in over fifty journals, including Arts & Letters, Malahat Review, and Prime Number. He holds a PhD in English and is a voting rights activist https://www.chillsubs.com/profile/hikoou
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