a bowl
of fruit
beside a dog.

Sit-stay, I say

but she escapes,
tears thru
the yard
with an apple.

Kate has published three chapbooks, June Bug (2014), Light to Light (2016) and My Wolf (2021). Journal and magazine credits include Third Wednesday, Misfits, and Raven’s Perch, among others. She was on the editorial board of The Apple Tree and was a semi-finalist of the Blue Light Poetry Contest (2014).