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—
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.