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Jessica commented on the post, Let me Sleep 4 years, 7 months ago
I love this last line. It is exactly what those last hours felt like.
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Jessica commented on the post, Hour 18 4 years, 7 months ago
This is exactly how I was feeling during this late hour of the marathon. “So hold on just a few more/hours to go”
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Jessica commented on the post, Poem Twenty-Three ~ Disappointment 4 years, 7 months ago
That last line is beautiful and moving. I really like it.
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Jessica commented on the post, Work in Slow Progress 4 years, 7 months ago
I really like to way the sound moves in this, like it is winding or wondering around the home.
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Jessica commented on the post, Trusting 4 years, 7 months ago
This is so strange, the potatoes me me laugh! Each line is a surprise.
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Jessica commented on the post, The Angst 4 years, 7 months ago
I really like this. There is so much darkness with death and the knowledge of dying, and yet there is the hope of Christ. It has echos of a Hopkins sonnet.
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Jessica wrote a new post, 24 4 years, 8 months ago
In the dark
sound moves
like a murmuration
of starlings, or dust
spiraling far enough
away to wonder if it’s
a person, the thin,
spinning column
until it collapses
and you know
nothing was there
but […] -
Jessica wrote a new post, 22 4 years, 8 months ago
If the hummingbirds hover, they trouble
all together, the coots in a clover
and the chickens in a peep, but watch for the gaggle
those geese are in a skein
See the plovers in a leash
or herons in a siege,
or […] -
Jessica wrote a new post, 21 4 years, 8 months ago
Momma called it the Movie Star Barn because a man came once
and asked to film there. He never did, but Grandad painted it bright red
and the doorframes stark white every year after until he died. Then the […] -
Jessica wrote a new post, 20 4 years, 8 months ago
Sycamores are their own regime. Please startle
the starlight. Crawl into the murmuring of swallows.
Please wake Judith and her knife. What is lost
but palm trees and grief. What is lost but
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Jessica wrote a new post, 19 4 years, 8 months ago
What can glow if you do not? The lungs are mostly water
and easily drowned. In the desert I breathe thin air and cough
sand in my sleep. I have more cousins bit by bats than scorpions.Our balance is unsteady […]
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Jessica wrote a new post, 18 4 years, 8 months ago
My body practices each month to hold
and let go. The habit of opening
and pain caused by something
leaving. But my husband has the character
for carrying. I love too much and not
enough. Attach and leave. My […] -
Jessica wrote a new post, 17 4 years, 8 months ago
Recipe For—
How many spiders can you fit on a pin? The tsunami
took the angels out ages ago and now we have them,
wasps, coquis and us. There are two spots of light, bright
spiders, smaller than dust on t […] -
Jessica wrote a new post, 16 4 years, 8 months ago
Being a girl is easy. First, you must rarely speak
and when you do, it must be hurriedso you don’t take up too much time. You must be slender
and reach out to those skinnier to prove you didn’t do it […] -
Jessica wrote a new post, 15 4 years, 8 months ago
You Say the Heart is a Muscle
But I say it’s an eggplant, ready to soak up whatever
flavor you put it in, adding a chewiness necessary
for a good vegetarian dish. You say the heart is a jackfruit
difficult t […] -
Jessica wrote a new post, 14 4 years, 8 months ago
My legs must just be dry, I thought, and I went to the spa where a woman in black
panties and bra scrubbed until the skin rolled off like old pieces of erasure.But the more time I spent in the pools and feet […]
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Jessica wrote a new post, 13 4 years, 8 months ago
She was afraid she wasn’t good enough
He was afraid she wasn’t good enough
He was afraid he wasn’t good enough
She was afraid he wasn’t good enough
He is afraid she isn’t good enough
He is afraid he isn’t goo […] -
Jessica wrote a new post, 12 4 years, 8 months ago
A Murmuring
As if the wind had a body, as if the sky
shuttered dark with its own laughter, as if the clouds
discovered each other and couldn’t stop
touching, as if our skin could shatter
and show what a jo […] -
Jessica wrote a new post, 11 4 years, 8 months ago
“I ran out of time for this one, but I’m curious where it will go when I have a good amount of time to really sit with it and think about the bodies of woman saints. Who knows where it will go.” […]
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Jessica wrote a new post, 9 4 years, 8 months ago
I held myself underwater
So I could rise above the surface
And prove myself alive
The lungs ballooningSo I could rise above the surface
And enjoy the shock of breathing
The lungs ballooning
Proof that I […] - Load More
I really love this one. It has such movement, such life. How you pulled it off at hour 24 is truly remarkable.
Ah, I love the imagery of the dust taking form….and that Kevin is in here and Joni. Lovely!! (and at hour 24 too! You were in the groove!)