Dog Days

Issue 10 | Summer 2023 | Ashley Wilkinson

 

 

The poem "Dog Days" presented in a block format, with spacing between lines and between certain phrases. The text reads: " each day distilled into the specks we have left floorboards cracking heat sick we soothe sucking wedges of cantaloupe while coffee cups sweat night walks after rain trees steep yellow glow fireflies rise from the wet grass at our ankles cicadas piercing as it swells I could just suck the sunset lip a gold edge these days lend permission waiting for what we grow loose and unshadowed all dissolves without us I pack into love last your gossamer your creature your smooth river stone."