Grove of Jealous Lovers
Too often I consider my rib cage hanging from / This tree or that
Alex Jennings
Alex Jennings’s poetry has appeared in The Hunger Journal, Native Skin Online, and EVENT Magazine. Born in Germany, he trotted the globe until settling in New Orleans. Before the Pandemic, he MCed a literary readings series called Dogfish. Alas. His debut novel, The Ballad of Perilous Graves (Orbit/Redhook) arrives this June, and it is available for pre-order wherever books are sold.
Negative Detection
Some days I wake too early / Eyes like hardboiled eggs / All of me borrowed / Blood beating in my ears / Limbs arranged in a / Semaphore of loneliness.