Dog’s Life
Listening to a memoir
and discovering the writer’s dog
is on the same SSRI as you
is an odd feeling;
I don’t horn in on a dog’s life,
chase balls, sniff crotches,
but our brains work in similar ways
it seems: carrot, sticks, a reward
called being there.
Ewen Glass is a poet from Northern Ireland who lives with two dogs, a tortoise and a body of self-doubt; his poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the likes of Atrium, Abridged, Poetry Scotland and HAD. Bluesky/X/IG: @ewenglass