This work was published in The Avenue Journal, Issue X: Dogs
Holy Retrievers
by EJ Hyndman
Dogs are really cool. It’s often said that God thought so too, because He made so damn many breeds of them.
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This poem was published in The Avenue Journal, Issue X: Dogs
The Trout, The Fisherman, The Dog
by Shutta Crum
Muscles propel through patches of warm light.
Navigating into the cool dark—it hangs weightless.
There’s the easy release of water past gills,
the buoyancy of being.
This poem was published in The Avenue Journal, Issue X: Dogs
Fanfare For The Common Home
by Shutta Crum
17 years :: the house dad built—
ㅤby the lake with a drop-off so deep it’s rumored
ㅤno one’s found the bottom, or one lost child.
ㅤToo many beloved dogs to count. Never a cat.
This poem was published in The Avenue Journal, Issue X: Dogs
Forget The Groundhog
by Catherine Allen
You don’t kill somebody
for being old and inconvenient
ㅤand isn’t a dog somebody?
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Playing Dead
by John Whittier Treat
Drew was getting married here today, which might not be the case if his family didn’t own this summer house, a two-story Cape built by his great-grandparents. Hollywood couldn’t come up with a better place to stage a wedding, even if its old shiplap siding could stand a new coat of paint. He spent a lot of time here, not only as a child but in his adulthood. He’d find Manhattan insufferable without this retreat at his disposal. Drew looked at the calm horizon of the sea beyond the house’s front yard, the busy road, and the inhospitable rocky shore he’d grown up calling “the beach.”
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The Dog Has Four Feet But He Takes Only One Path 1
by Pamela Ahlen
This work was published in The Avenue Journal, Issue X: Dogs
Dog Paddling
by Kendyl Kearly
Deidre had been promised a swimming pool since they’d agreed to move here.
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This poem was published in The Avenue Journal, Issue X: Dogs
Signs
by Richard Downing
I was ill
prepared.
This poem was published in The Avenue Journal, Issue X: Dogs
Still
by Richard Downing