sine qua non
By Rochelle Hope Mehr

art is so needy:
a floppy-eared dog
wagging its tail
panting and slobbering
for your attention just for a moment
for your stroke of flesh to validate
its leap of faith

Rochelle Hope Mehr lives in West Orange, NJ. Her poetry has appeared in ken*again, Current Accounts, Trina's Poetry Junction, Salt River Review, Offerings, Poetry Life & Times, Fluid Ink Press, no alibi press, Reader's Quarterly, Monkey's Fist, Joey and the Black Boots, Liquid Ohio, Score, Futures, Hidden Oak, The New Journal, A Little Poetry, CER*BER*US, Concrete Wolf, Poems Niederngasse Online, and other publications.