A terrier named “thistle” was perfect.
She was all the soft bits. The cool, delightful pillow-y purple at the top.
Finding the smooth spaces between excrescences of past hurts and goddamn bad days
She made you forget
there was ever a weed.
A response to:
December Writing Prompts
Lane Burke - poet, traveler, person of letters 
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