“I never thought I’d leave
until I realized it was okay
if he only remembered me as a weight.”
Enjoy this audio recording of “Echo” by Jessica E. Pierce from Vol. 35:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy your copy here!
Jessica E. Pierce’s debut collection, Consider the Body, Winged, was published by First Matter Press. You can find her poems in Bellingham Review, Cimarron Review, Euphony, Painted Bride Quarterly, Jet Fuel Review, and elsewhere. She has been a finalist for the New Ohio Review’s NORward Prize, Nimrod’s Pablo Neruda Prize, and the MVICW Poetry Contest, for which she received a Poet Fellowship. She lives in Beaverton, OR.
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