David Olimpio in Dog Is Us

Oct 22, 2019

---

A Future Rewound

the Bald Man thinks we can mean something
by the words we say, the 
ropes we shake, hearts 
we break, as if 
anything means…

Read more…

220

David Olimpio in Dog Is Us

Dec 30, 2020

---

Forward/Back, Part Two, Or

A Present Such as This

(Part One, Here)

Read more…

53

David Olimpio in Dog Is Us

Dec 20, 2020

---

Surrender

it is unbecoming to surrender your’n self
to a Bald Man who wants to take
your’n ball only to throw
it forth and yon

Read more…

30

David Olimpio in Dog Is Us

Dec 3, 2020

---

We Are Together, And

we are together, and ones
who found fire together, chins
held high together —

Read more…

19

David Olimpio in Dog Is Us

Nov 5, 2020

---

A Rome, By Any Other Name

we are lucky, Runt, to have been alive during the
American blip to have taken
a piss in this
post-Cambrian lava…

Read more…

22

David Olimpio in Dog Is Us

Mar 9, 2023

---

On Finding that Not All Songs Are Love Songs

the language I used to know has disappeared with your sound, your scent,
and with…

Read more…

2

David Olimpio in Dog Is Us

Mar 20, 2020

---

Bewilderment and the Abstraction

do the daily doing of things
in spite of the daily
diversion and
distraction.

Read more…

50

David Olimpio in Dog Is Us

Feb 4, 2020

---

Again, Eternally

I will make and have made
around you, these
circles around
you forever, swam.

Read more…

100

David Olimpio in Dog Is Us

Mar 20, 2020

---

Quick Ghosts

we are all of us quick ghosts, putting
our breath on the things
that we find and the
things that have
fallen

Read more…

David Olimpio in Dog Is Us

Feb 12, 2020

---

Silence of a Sad

the rush of a fun
the movement
of a true
and a good. it’s

Read more…

31

These were the top 10 stories published by Dog Is Us; you can also dive into yearly archives: 2019, 2020, and 2023.