Friday, January 29, 2021

MAJOR

by Caitlin M.S. Buxbaum


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.