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.