by Caitlin M.S. Buxbaum
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| Joe Biden and Major in 2018, at the Delaware Humane Association. Credit: Stephanie Gomez/Delaware Humane Association, via Associated Press and The New York Times. |
the White House
announces
its first-ever
pound puppy
and I
wonder
if this
proclamation
is an
indication
of more
major
changes to
come—
that our
president
has himself
declared,
on America’s
behalf,
‘we will
shelter
every kind
refugee
seeking a
shepherd.’
Caitlin M.S. Buxbaum is a writer and teacher from Wasilla, Alaska. She has published several books through her company, Red Sweater Press, and has work featured in Alaska Women Speak, The Daily Drunk, The Ekphrastic Review, and Verse-Virtual, among others. She currently serves as the Mat-Su Vice President of Alaska Writers Guild.