My Pack
Poem by Rachel Joy Welcher
MY PACK
You bring the dog with you
when you think I’m sad.
I hear the stairs creak and
Frank’s collar jingle
as you travel, as a pack,
to our upstairs bedroom
where I lie reading my phone
on our bed, in the dark.
I say: “Hey baby. And Frank!”
And you say, “Are you sad?”
And I say, “I told you I wasn’t.”
And you reply, “Yes, but sometimes
women lie about being okay.”
And that’s true.Sometimes we do.
Rachel Joy Welcher, Sometimes Women Lie About Being Okay
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
RACHEL JOY WELCHER
is a poet and author living in South Dakota with her husband, Pastor Evan Welcher, and their longed-for daughter, Hildegaard. Rachel works as an editor at Fathom Magazine and Lexham Press and received her Master of Letters in theology from The University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She is the author of four books: “Blue Tarp” (Finishing Line Press, 2016), “Two Funerals, Then Easter” (Dustlings Press, 2018), “Talking Back to Purity Culture: Rediscovering Faithful Christian Sexuality” (InterVarsity Press, 2020), and “Sometimes Women Lie About Being Okay” (Dustlings Press, 2022).
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