Suddenly the house is still. Our cats turn on their cushions, safe from the children for another day. Sometimes we make dinner, closing cabinets gently and speaking low. Ginger and onion perfume our kitchen. Outside the air is quiet, or sometimes it buzzes with cicadas and lawnmowers. We settle together, finally ourselves, more animal and […]
Jenny McDougal
Jenny McDougal is a poet, home baker, and union shop steward from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She earned her MFA from Hamline University and is a semi-finalist for the Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry and Pushcart Prize nominee. Her poems have appeared in CALYX Journal, Water~Stone Review, Midway Journal, Nimrod and elsewhere. Jenny lives in mysterious St Paul, Minnesota with her husband and two kids.