The rescue dog next door is a big boy with soft eyes whose brindled body goes all desperate when he sees me, or anyone he loves, like Jello, like anticipation, wiggling clear through. I have always wanted to be smaller, to take up less everything—space, mass, weight. I can name (or could) where it came […]
Rebecca Brock
Rebecca Brock is the author of The Way Land Breaks (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions 2023). Her work can be found in The Threepenny Review, CALYX, Mom Egg Review, Radar Poetry, THRUSH & elsewhere. Her awards include the 2025 Lascaux Poetry Prize and the 2022 Kelsay Book’s Woman’s Poetry Prize. She has been a flight attendant for most of her adult life and is still surprised by this fact. Find more at www.rebeccabrock.org.