Jessica K Baer


Gazing for yr heart, if we blew




Open wed never
close again—
efflorescent stones
chaplet I wreathed you in
spackled mirrors

The dead coral of yr fingers
life-sized
Wedge-syllables//Muffled streams

Granary en
cases, recurrent it
semblance sheaths—refractory sound
abeyance

Re quited

The Requisite Circumscription
semantic—fed on lapse
vestige, earth inter
spliced pollen

Thistlehead::beatdown
wind, You’re there when disappearing
acts
facing parapets

Vanishing in the still
life the painter climbed
down frm

Eyes—mining ore

Mineralized
draining river beds
memory
Languages a broken
constellation

Postulates facing
backwards—glittering residue
crowding it empties

Shadows
the interstices they
melt






Go by stars



& ditch
Weed, still unfolded
inside the night

Pushing, pulsatile — behind the sky

It clangs — the interior
stretch

Drizzling moonbeams

Water distorts
Yr farrows, parcelling lots
fate scatters dandelion
crests spirals
diminished by

Time: Brain in a vat

Decomposing flowers

The sinking stars
The twinkle breezes 
tossed
to crevices where
through? Celestial light

washed down, drunk
back in gulfs

The world’s not
Gone, it’s not

Mine.



very august 



very august
Britney Spears-liturgy
hothouse automated
feelings

stickyin            
segments 
      between rings

drop the levels
—everything earths

I forgot to bring
my voicehome from the war

splendor when you   touchdown


i married the dream of the river
tug boats

spurting sunpulls
curtains for us, god’s dream

quasarsspin
its tail/ loses the rhythm
riddled with holes—
riddingyrself of miniatures

tender hell scapes

thelightning broke thru
it’s pieces

doctoring names

particlesgod’s absent

rememberingfrombefore
the first word
stuttered tolove
you—
unhinged horizons
mercurial belts
the hospital—wrist bands
tying fugues down
disappearing edge

doubletime softpacing
fever steps to the light house
inside yr mind

trashing understanding


the body/bags waste/land

sepulcher, harbor me

an absolute 
redacts—

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Jessica K Baer received their MFA from Brown University in 2017. They were born in GA and grew up beneath southern power plants. They have a poetry chapbook with Magic Helicopter Press (Holodeck One, 2017), a science fiction chapbook with Essay Press (At One End, 2020), and have been included in journals such as Prelude Mag, Pinwheel, Bathhouse, Baest, and Bone Bouquet. Their first book, Midwestern Infinity Doctrine, is forthcoming from Apocalypse Party Press in 2021. They love horses.