Shelter
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Disturbing because of the cruelty intended as kindness to animals and the speaker’s unflinching, relentless insistence on her culpability, these poems force us to consider whether we can be redeemed by our capacity for love, compassion, and personal responsibility.
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Shelter - Carey Salerno
FLEDGLING
Tina fastens the needle,
barrel blue to lcc.
A dose we divide for seven
kittens. I pinch one by the scruff.
Hind legs scrunch to haunches;
he hangs, a sack of bones.
We turn from the purple carrier,
backs to the mother, guttural moan.
Kittens, velvet skeletons, wither
in my hands, cumbersome skulls
drooping without muscle. Their tongues
strain to brush ashen noses—
then slacken, knock against loose jaws
unmasking porcelain, pushpin teeth.
Tina rustles out a garbage bag, inhales
sterile plastic. I drop in kittens, some not
yet dead, cull more juice and hoist mother.
I wrap fingers like tape on legs, stretching
her urine-damp body. She doesn’t fight
as Tina draws closer, knowing
the angle at which to pierce a heart.
WHITE WOLF
There are dogs going mad after a few
days in kennel rows. Rottweilers
mostly, we give them three days tops
until restless kennel legs
jump them in circles, barge
torsos at rusted pen doors. Their anemic lips
snarl at offers to play outside
and we say time up—fearing wet jaws.
She’s the same and we name her Suisse, purebred
Blanc Berger, white and striking, unspayed. Snow
ushers her in because she isn’t good
with children, has a slight food aggression problem,
though we hold her for breed’s rescue. I chaperone
her in our courtyard and she runs me
like a slave, growling when I escort her indoors.
If other dogs are brought to play, a flash of teeth.
The diva dog won’t let me pet or touch her
bristled coat when I slip the braided
blue lead onto her