By Sarah Rosenblatt
My puppy is in love with each of the humans
in the house.
She’s also in love with the moment
that rises up, filled with its mitzvahs.
It then departs like a friend
we don’t want to leave.
And you see once you take love from an animal
and give some back:
you are making a lifelong exchange
with a creature that insists on holding you
in the multiple layers of love
and longing.
Sarah Rosenblatt is a poet and therapist specializing in intergenerational trauma. She holds an MFA from Brooklyn College and an MSW from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Sarah’s poetry has been published in myriad journals including Ploughshares, Poetry East, Heartland, The Portland Review, The Brooklyn Review, and others. She is the author of three books of poetry published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. Sarah has a husband, Craig, who is an artist and therapist, two sons currently in college, and a dog named Mitzvah who was bred to be her family’s very best friend. Sarah Rosenblatt was born in NYC and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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