5.08 / August 2010

THOUGHTS ON FINDING YOU DEAD

Brett Elizabeth Jenkins

How vulnerable these machines we live
in. How this skin keeps us together. How
little time this thing beats to maintain us.
How I couldn’t look at your face. How you
lay with your palms up as if even in death
there was something left to want.

Brett Elizabeth Jenkins teaches in St. Paul. She is the author of the chapbook OH NO EVERYTHING (Pockets Press 2015). Look for her work in Beloit Poetry Journal, Paper Darts, Revolver, Linebreak, Painted Bride Quarterly, Drunken Boat, and elsewhere.

5.08 / August 2010