Resurrection by Sandi Leibowitz

I dream my dog,

long dead and gone,

is made of spring twigs,

bundles of brown forsythia

the yellow buds inch out from

and as he runs

bees waken and fly forth. 

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Sandi Leibowitz, author of THE BONE-COLLECTOR and EURYDICE SINGS, lives in Astoria, Queens with two ghost-dogs and the occasional dragon. She writes mostly speculative fiction and poetry, which has garnered second- and third-place Dwarf Stars, as well as nominations for the Elgin, Rhysling, Pushcart Prize, and Best of the Net awards. Her work appears in Verse-Virtual, Corvid Queen, Uncanny, Liminality, and other magazines and anthologies. When not writing or singing, she works as a school librarian, turning elementary school kids onto reading.