Native to my shadow I am all breathmarks carriage of ether and home the deep liquid story of the Himalayas. Find me bent toward the soft dun floor, my habit is weeping. You. Meet me there. What is sap but time slowed to a resin mist-become-honey mountain-become-pulp, aroma of the dead edging back to life. […]
Jennifer K. Sweeney
Jennifer K. Sweeney is the author of four poetry collections: Foxlogic, Fireweed (Backwaters Press/Univ. of Nebraska), Little Spells, How to Live on Bread and Music, which received the James Laughlin Award, the Perugia Press Prize and a nomination for the Poets’ Prize, and Salt Memory. The collaborative chapbook, Dear Question, with L.I. Henley, will be published in 2024 from Glass Lyre Press. The recipient of a Pushcart Prize, her poems have appeared widely in journals, most recently or forthcoming in Birdcoat Quarterly, Guesthouse, On the Seawall, OneArt, Orion, Poetry Northwest, Sixth Finch, Terrain, Waxwing.