Feeding Your Best Friend His Last Meal
Andrew Cortez, Ashley Levine, Fernando Morales
I hugged your ashes
as I held you
ultimately
fed you Cheerios
as amber fluid enveloped you
in warm repose
cradled your kind, messy muzzle
as Windex liquid stopped
your lungs
kissed your once responsive brow
as the doctor gingerly placed you in
a duffle bag