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Andreea Finichiu

Playing Fetch

Girls Playing with Dogs by Max Beckman

Five summers on, I take the brush
and circle the date
under my eyes.
I look down, from the
factory-sealed concealer
to the gashed-open
plum alkyds you loved.
Blobs I see no
future blots in.

Nearby, my dog chases
its tail.

 

About the writer:
Andreea Finichiu has an M.A. in Anglo-American Studies from Ovidius University of Constanța. She is a teacher of EFL and serves as Assistant Fiction Editor for Consequence (Forum). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Presence, New Feathers Anthology, Scifaikuest, Subterranean Blue Poetry, and International Poetry Review.

Image: Girls Playing with Dogs by Max Beckman(1884-1950). Oil on canvas. 25 1/2 by 38 3/8 inches. 1933. Public domain.

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