There are no words for this noble loneliness. My tongue struggles against the roof of my mouth. Swallows lay bricks behind my eyes, my teeth become tiny chairs.
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Jessica D. Thompson has work in Appalachian Heritage, Atlanta Review, The Sow's Ear Poetry Review, and in anthologies such as Circe's Lament: Anthology of Wild Women Poetry (Accents Publishing). She received the James Baker Hall Memorial Prize in Poetry (2013), the Kudzu Poetry Prize (2014), and is author of the poetry chapbook Bullets and Blank Bibles (Liquid Paper Press, 2013). Jessica has work forthcoming in The Southern Review.
