Jessi Yocum, Sunset, 2024 (Artist Instagram)
Soft pastel on paper
Courtesy of the artist
Left to the rapture of spring exhales
and garden-grade dirt
Imagine any day or fence
she’ll be content with the conjuring
Clouds absorb chest scratches
tail tremors
When you picture a young dog
on a historic day
she’s always facing the now
And what they won’t tell you
about a beagle in the countryside
is that she will
meet sun in a way
hands and feet cannot
in a way that distorts who has
authority to hold
miracles of the marred