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Jennifer Hollie Bowles

 

Jennifer Hollie Bowles writes to prolong breathing.  She is the editor of The Medulla Review, and her work has been accepted for publication in The Ampersand Review, The Battered Suitcase, blossombones, Breadcrumb Scabs, The Centrifugal Eye, Clockwise Cat, Dew on the Kudzu, Gloom Cupboard, Identity Theory, Literary Chaos, The New York Quarterly, Oak Bend Review, Sein und Werden, Thieves Jargon, tinfoildresses, The Toronto Quarterly, Twisted Tongue Magazine, Word Riot, and Zygote in my Coffee.  Jennifer doesn’t own a TV or a watch.


 

Settling

As she returns to his room
Disappointed and worn
Faltering again
I remember myself

And the coldness I felt
As she discovered that love
Was lost when gypsies
Stole me away

Will she trail him through life
As I smudge hearts in the kitchen
Scattered and bored
Bringing my darkness home

In her mind I have fed
From the poetry he stole
From lights that bleed over
The safety she felt