Jessie Janeshek
Maison Jamais Vu
We windpiped water through our
gullets et our wishes to be birdflesh
et hips curving buckets for the
pilgrims milking vertebrae to
rosaries oblique et all the
Magdalenes dead blonding all the
Jezebels framboise. At least the river
rats were honest carving our hearts
out of cabbage et hot flossing with
our gardens ripping corsets off the
clotheslines chanting vulvas taste
like cloisters our daydresses smelt of
horse.
Jessie Janeshek's first book of poems is Invisible Mink (Iris Press, 2010). An assistant professor of English at Bethany College, she holds a Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and an M.F.A. from Emerson College. She co-edited the literary anthology Outscape: Writings on Fences and Frontiers (KWG Press, 2008). www.jessiejaneshek.com
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We windpiped water through our
gullets et our wishes to be birdflesh
et hips curving buckets for the
pilgrims milking vertebrae to
rosaries oblique et all the
Magdalenes dead blonding all the
Jezebels framboise. At least the river
rats were honest carving our hearts
out of cabbage et hot flossing with
our gardens ripping corsets off the
clotheslines chanting vulvas taste
like cloisters our daydresses smelt of
horse.
Jessie Janeshek's first book of poems is Invisible Mink (Iris Press, 2010). An assistant professor of English at Bethany College, she holds a Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and an M.F.A. from Emerson College. She co-edited the literary anthology Outscape: Writings on Fences and Frontiers (KWG Press, 2008). www.jessiejaneshek.com
Return to March 2013 Edition