for A 1. What would life have been like had someone walked alongside you, friend, met you on the other side of you and all around you, suspended you, weightless by the boughs of the earth so that you could fill yourself on the ripest pears, gather them in glazed bowls, let the ground honey … Continue reading After Marina Abramovic’s The Kitchen V: Carrying the Milk
by Alyssa Jewell
I keep my distance from the closets, the picture frames, never wanted to know their contents yet thought of them: black and white linens, tin smiles, all the glittered hayfields. We know each other by the spaces in between the floorboards, reach around the electrical to touch, and when the cords spark a little, well, … Continue reading Oil and Pieta
by Alyssa Jewell
Alyssa Jewell studies poetry at Western Michigan University where she served as assistant editor for New Issues Poetry and Prose and is currently an assistant poetry editor for Third Coast. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Blue Earth Review, Cactus Heart, The Columbia Review, Fifth Wednesday, and Grist. She lives and teaches in Grand … Continue reading Alyssa Jewell
