you are
dying just like me.

Published in TAR’s Spring 2024 issue #216 (late release).

bursting fat with clustered rage in the late heat of May.

First published in When Flowers Sing: A Poetry Anthology, in Autumn 2024.

I wasn’t scared / then / but now I’m a mother / I know / I could / never

First published in Qu: A Contemporary Literary Magazine from Queens University, Charlotte Issue 20, Volume 20, Summer 2024.

I will remind her of the round fullness coming after, that difference is a measure of joy.

First published in Camas Summer 2024.

Her tracks zig zag like stitches along the skin of the earth. Each hoof pressed like two fingers rutting the ground.

First published in Issue 1 October, 2023 in Broken Antler Magazine.

when the gentle current is pounded into a foaming rage. You foment, you struggle.

First published March 14, 2023 in MER Journal.

 the smell of diesel and aged piss when taken together has a certain joie de vivre, a holiness.

First published in issue 49, Summer 2023 of Kestrel.

undone and redoing at all minutes

First Published in the Made at Home 2022 issue of the Berkeley Poetry Review.

sacrifice oneself to the antediluvian pull of petaled poetry written with a pen only a creator could fathom

First published in Autumn 2022, Volume 4, Number 2 of Chestnut Review.

My body is a craft of memory, imprinted by generational shifts, not wrought to shuttle armageddon.

First published in Volume 48, Number 3, Autumn 2022 of California Quarterly

A rainbow is rent from the body

First published August 2, 2022 by The Ekphrastic Review.

A house of women basking, baked in wine and smoke.

First published on August 8, 2022 in issue 3.2 of Feed LitMag.

My mother raised me to take what she could not

First published, with audio, by The Indianapolis Review.

Who doesn’t have a body full of matchsticks, kindling bits latent under thunder, ready for the dry flash of lightning that will ignite a reckoning blaze, and what is wrong with them?

Jessie’s first published suite of poetry. As seen in Litbreak Magazine May 23, 2022.