“spoons” by Jessica Popeski
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spoons
By Jessica Popeski
persimmon. honey.
splat of mint tea
in the overturned
belly of a spoon.
bright zip of nerve
damage. calathea
beauty star. marsh
pennywort. butter
sun on hardwood.
the cleft spine of a
book. copper sky.
sparrows bedding
down. the throb of
toothache reminds
you you’re a body,
breathing. zopiclone.
mirtazapine. the salve
of fresh sheets. the
indigo-dark. no alarm.
Copyright ยฉ Jessica Popeski
Forthcoming in grenoside (Gordon Hill Press, fall 2026).
Raised in Moscow and Sheffield, Jessica Popeski is a queer, dis/abled opera singer, professor, and intersectional ecofeminist poet living on land which is covered by Treaty 13 and the Williams Treaties, the traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples. Internationally published in literary magazines, she is the author of two chapbooks with Anstruther Press, and two full-length collections with Gordon Hill Press.
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