This selection is included in NonBinary Review Issue #4, available here.

Your gasp is thievery
greedy for fat.
You can’t wait for sky quiet
the hard-wired carbine.

Think not of your father
cigarette crisscross
the hole filled with snowfall
slaughter and swamp.

The maze glows ghost pink
the deer and the possum
paddling the creek
once rain stops and wind’s glossy.

Cats vomit prairies
the yellow fox counting
then pawning your beads.

Jessie Janeshek's first book of poems is Invisible Mink (Iris Press, 2010). An Assistant Professor of English and the Director of Writing at Bethany College, she holds a Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and an M.F.A. from Emerson College. She co-edited the literary anthology Outscape: Writings on Fences and Frontiers (KWG Press, 2008).