Dog Lady
is already walking
up the hill, her flowered skirt
blowing in the breeze, eyes smiling
through wide wraparound sunglasses
as she waves wildly in your direction.
She rocks back and forth on orthopedic shoes
and talks to your dog, hands clasped
behind her back, thin whips
of short brown hair escaping
her toboggan.
She doesn’t know what kind of doggy
she should get…15 minutes later, I tell her
we need to go in, she’s disappointed
but turns to walk back to her bare house
dragging an empty leash behind her.
Jenny Billings Beaver is a native Charlottean, with a MFA in Creative Writing in Poetry from Queens University of Charlotte and a BA in English from Wake Forest University. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina currently with her husband, Justin, and Shih Tzu, Tola. Jenny has been writing since elementary school. Her first poem appeared in a local newspaper when she was in the 6th grade. Jenny teaches English at Rowan Cabarrus Community College and works as a director at NOMAD Aquatics and Fitness, as a poet and as a freelance writer for The Charlotte Observer. She is also the poetry editor for Referential Magazine. Her work has appeared or is to appear in Referential Magazine, Southern Women’s Review, The Penwood Review, H.O.D., Sliver of Stone, Poets for Living Waters, Girls with Insurance, vox poetica, The Dead Mule of Southern Literature and Writer’s Advice.
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