Little Dog
Ekphrastic Challenge February 2024
This poem was written in response to the Rattle® Poetry Ekphrastic Challenge for February 2024 and was ultimately not selected. You can find more information here.
https://www.rattle.com/ekphrastic/
The image that this poem was specifically written about can be found here. (February 2024 – Christine Crockett's “Graphing Uncertainty V””)
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Little Dog
The blacktop scorched in the summer sun
Roasting hot on your feet
I should have carried you in
But I thought you wouldn’t be scared
That you would behave this time
But something spooked you
Pulling back out of the collar
And I wasn’t fast enough to catch you
And you wouldn’t come to me as I called
Bolting out onto the road, crossing yellow lines
The car that tried to stop
Tires screeching, crumpled bumper
Blood stained asphalt
I held you limp in my arms
As I screamed
The vet bill as I tried to save you
But that evening
Shovel tip dug into soil
And I buried my little dog
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This poem was written in response to the Rattle® Poetry Ekphrastic Challenge for February 2024 and was ultimately not selected. You can find more information here. https://www.rattle.com/ekphrastic/ The image that this poem was specifically written about can be found here. (February 2024 – Christine Crockett's “Graphing Uncertainty V”) https://i0.wp.com/www.rattle.com/ekphrasis/EC24Feb.jpg?ssl=1
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the vet bill as I tried to save you doesn't seem to work in my opinion.. but otherwise great work and good read
the vet bill as I tried to save you doesn't seem to work in my opinion.. but otherwise great work and good read