“Prompt” by Rebecca Foust (Poetry ’10)

Poetry alumn Rebecca Foust was recently featured on LitHub. Read an excerpt of “Prompt” and find a link to the full text below:

Prompt

Null. All. What’s after death or before.
Where my old dog is now, my mother,
my father—not the ashes clumped
in a box, but the mad licking
and tail-beating and the gaze,
dense with devotion, of iris-less eyes.

Continue reading here: Rebecca Foust | LitHub