Jennifer Martelli
Things Kitty Genovese Should Have
Three scoop neck Danskins: black, forest green, garnet.
Matchbook from The Swing Rendevous on MacDougal Street.
Pop-a-bead pearl choker necklace (which rests on the nape of her neck)
and a plunging back V baby blue sateen fitted dress.
A horse-hair brush and a brown bone comb.
Ink sketch of Kitty looking out their apartment window in Kew Gardens.
Also by MaryAnn Zielonko: an oil painting of the sketch, cubist, burnt colors.
Black flats with jeweled clips (smoky diamond). Pumps.
Cigarette pants. Tin espresso pot. Mascara.
A fedora for when she’s the man. Piaf.
Petula Clark’s Downtown.
And Ces bottes sont faites pour marcher had she lived.
Full moon. Fondu pot. Five minutes. Window. Window.
Jennifer Martelli’s debut poetry collection, The Uncanny Valley, was published in 2016. She is also the author of the chapbook, Apostrophe. Her poetry has appeared in Broadsided, Vector Press, and Tar River Poetry. Her prose has appeared in Drunken Boat, The Green Mountains Review, The Mom Egg, and Gravel: A Literary Journal. She has been nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net Prizes and is the recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant in Poetry. She is a book reviewer for Up the Staircase Quarterly, as well as an associate editor for The Compassion Anthology. Visit her website here: www.jennifermartelli.com
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Three scoop neck Danskins: black, forest green, garnet.
Matchbook from The Swing Rendevous on MacDougal Street.
Pop-a-bead pearl choker necklace (which rests on the nape of her neck)
and a plunging back V baby blue sateen fitted dress.
A horse-hair brush and a brown bone comb.
Ink sketch of Kitty looking out their apartment window in Kew Gardens.
Also by MaryAnn Zielonko: an oil painting of the sketch, cubist, burnt colors.
Black flats with jeweled clips (smoky diamond). Pumps.
Cigarette pants. Tin espresso pot. Mascara.
A fedora for when she’s the man. Piaf.
Petula Clark’s Downtown.
And Ces bottes sont faites pour marcher had she lived.
Full moon. Fondu pot. Five minutes. Window. Window.
Jennifer Martelli’s debut poetry collection, The Uncanny Valley, was published in 2016. She is also the author of the chapbook, Apostrophe. Her poetry has appeared in Broadsided, Vector Press, and Tar River Poetry. Her prose has appeared in Drunken Boat, The Green Mountains Review, The Mom Egg, and Gravel: A Literary Journal. She has been nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net Prizes and is the recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant in Poetry. She is a book reviewer for Up the Staircase Quarterly, as well as an associate editor for The Compassion Anthology. Visit her website here: www.jennifermartelli.com
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