Easier to live in the shade with our dogs
Meg Pokrass is an expat American writer living in the Scottish Highlands. A two-time winner of the Blue Light Book Award, her work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies including New England Review, Electric Literature, Five Points, waxwing, Plume, RATTLE, Atrium, Cottonmouth, Unbroken and elsewhere.
than beneath the sun with the boys.
To sit in the sun and feel our skin crinkle.
Feel what it would be like to be old
and dappled by time, or
sad and alone like our mothers.
Boys clumped around swimming pools
with their haunted eyes, lolling their
white-coated tongues like cows,
stared at our nipples as if they had entered
a strange new living room.
These are mine, we learned to say
to the animals who lived in the sun.
Meg Pokrass is an expat American writer living in the Scottish Highlands. A two-time winner of the Blue Light Book Award, her work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies including New England Review, Electric Literature, Five Points, waxwing, Plume, RATTLE, Atrium, Cottonmouth, Unbroken and elsewhere.