Jessica Lee
Today and Tomorrow
Each union
its own body
of water
susceptible
to other
& self-
made storms.
One day
we’re calm,
smooth like
unwrapped
wrapping
paper, solid
as the porcelain
plate you
gently cut
a steak upon.
In a squall
we’re something
else entirely
chopped blue
hacking
at the once
quiet shore.
Jessica Lee is an Assistant Poetry Editor for Narrative Magazine. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in BOAAT, Diagram, Fugue, Passages North, Phoebe, Prairie Schooner, Missouri Review’s Poem of the Week, Zone 3, and elsewhere. She was a finalist for the 2017 Greg Grummer Poetry Award and the 2017 So to Speak Poetry Contest. Find her online at readjessicalee.com.
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Each union
its own body
of water
susceptible
to other
& self-
made storms.
One day
we’re calm,
smooth like
unwrapped
wrapping
paper, solid
as the porcelain
plate you
gently cut
a steak upon.
In a squall
we’re something
else entirely
chopped blue
hacking
at the once
quiet shore.
Jessica Lee is an Assistant Poetry Editor for Narrative Magazine. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in BOAAT, Diagram, Fugue, Passages North, Phoebe, Prairie Schooner, Missouri Review’s Poem of the Week, Zone 3, and elsewhere. She was a finalist for the 2017 Greg Grummer Poetry Award and the 2017 So to Speak Poetry Contest. Find her online at readjessicalee.com.
Return to January 2019 Edition