MIPOESIAS VOLUME 24, ISSUE 1 ~ JANUARY 2011 Jess Burnquist Socratic Method with Pearls on a Cliff


Where exactly is daylight being saved, and why Hektor’s bones like beads After the funeral pyre leading us to Wonder what can really be preserved.


Animals.


I don’t know why the dying ground squirrel Reminds me of you as its legs tremble. Lately I love you is quivering as apology. Begin backwards With an answer other than yes.


Do you feel ledge-like when you think in those terms? Words like tether, rough patch…


There is an unintentional rescue being performed And I will ask you now to address which part I fulfill because I am immediately Athena and Aphrodite without direction— Inarticulate war, this broken arrow. Or maybe I am just succumbing to an ancient ceremony One that ends in thick ash, bones on a string.


Jess Burnquist earned her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Arizona State University. Her work has been featured in Poets & Artists (O&S), Persona, Natural Bridge, Clackamas Review, and Locuspoint. She is a recipient of the Sylvan Silver Apple Award for teaching and the Joan Frazer Memorial Award in the Arts. Currently, Jess teaches English at Combs High School in San Tan Valley, Arizona. She resides with her family in the east valley of Metropolitan Phoenix.


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