Outsider, Breck Young
This eclectic issue of The Mind’s Eye explores the tangible and symbolic bonds that
people have with dogs. Submissions include poetry, fiction, science fiction, essay
musings, artistic works, photojournalism and more formal academic research/papers.
The loss of one’s beloved dog companion is so psychically traumatic that many dog
owners …
Photograph Credit: Dog Chapel, Jennifer Zoltanski
It has been nearly one year since my dog Amber of 14 years died at home in my arms in the company of her three closest pals Toby, Remi, and the Professor. The event went as well as these things …
Curled Up, Bailey Brissett
Our Old Dog (Curled in Some New Position) His ears daydream. And he barks at poltergeists
who shuffle upstairs. When he dies, my son wants another just like him. That’s a pretty
good testament, I’d say. The cat will miss our dog, but like a wife will go on living
…
Instinctual, Nicole Stearns Accomplice It still had its spots when I startled it from
the underbrush. It still lived in simple declarative sentences. Where was its mother?
Probably dead in the gauzy autumn light of a new hunting season. Or worse: listening
nearby. I yelled for the dog, as the bleating turned to gurgle. Nothing …
Photograph Credit: Susan Haris
Street Dogs in India: Urbanization and Biopolitics in the Anthropocene Abstract. This
paper explores the street dog in India, and shows how usual categories of analysis
escape this animal because of its distinctive position in the Indian social spaces.
Further, the street dog is situated in a discourse of environmentalism …
Coyote Fog, Gregory Scheckler Eraserville Alvin donned a hand-rolled circle of old
computer wires as if it were a clumsy hat. His image reflected in his living room's
picture window, which reflected faraway as a tiny rectangle on the inside curve of
a vast transparent dome. Its protective bubble arced over trees and fields, the tents
…
Photograph Credit: Rosie, David and Nicole Braden-Johnson
Ode to Rosie Perked ears attuned to every word and action Raise questions of the depth
of knowing, when One phrase is met with eager-eyed attention While others vex or reach
beyond her ken. No greater joy or resolve than giving chase With a victorious howl
and rhapsodic …
Photograph Credit: Shawn Rosenheim
Triptych with Pets 1. I had Barron for two years. He was the first dog I’d owned
as an adult -- a portly black Lab who never missed a chance to escape. Our yard was
large, but not large enough for Barron: whenever one of the kids left a door …
Image Credit: Michael Chin
PINK MAN I started losing Tim when he hit high school. I guess everyone does. After
all, what are those teenage years for but developing independence by way of rejecting
your parents? I stayed out past curfew to make out in vacant parking lots, then started
climbing out my bedroom window …
Photograph Credit: Alonso Inostrosa Psijas
White Dog Dawn. I descend to the lower level of our home. And there in the yard is
a large soft- haired white dog on its haunches, statuesque yet cloud-like in the morning
haze. He should have been in my dream, or perhaps he is, as I ascend, once again,
…
