We know dog paws smell like corn chips Vin’s look like chocolate chip cookie dough brown sugar, rich yolk, unbaked chocolate chunks swirled into the vanilla cream of his feet’s soft fur We used to put our daughters’ baby soft silk feet that smooth and intoxicating infant scent into our post-partum, dog-tired mouths delirious desire […]
A. M. Hayden
A.M. Hayden served as Poet Laureate for Sinclair College from 2021-2025 and is a Tenured Professor of Humanities, Philosophy, and World Religions, receiving the League for Innovation Teaching Excellence Award (2020) and the Distinguished Faculty Scholars Award (2024). She has two full length poetry collections (American Saunter: Poems of the U.S. and Old World Wings: Poems of Europe) and one chapbook (How to Tie Tobacco), published by FlowerSong Press and Wild Ink Publishing. Twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize and a River Heron Editors’ Choice Winner, she lives on a windy farm with her family and many rescues including a blind, three-legged dog named Vinny Valentine and a three-legged goat named Old Man Jenkins.