josefina dogchaser

Her companionship is never tidy. She collects histories and sutures them together: an old dog with cataracts that remembers the taste of sunlight, a skinny pup that knows nothing of corners, a mutt whose bark still carries the echo of a family home. Josefina listens to the noises other people disavow: the whimper behind a neighbor’s porch, the yelp muffled by cold. In these neglected sounds she constructs a narrative that argues against easy dismissal. She sees worth where the city has already calculated discard.