Tender Reproach Aeronautics

Constant orbitof ancillarycrimesThe space coachand the life coachand the coach for the doggie doorLetters we draftintuitivelyto the self we werebefore the self we arerealized its errorThe underbellyfull of apple seedsThe rotten being so for being left on the groundfor too longProjectivist and yetWarring egos don’t enjoydrinks togetherEach the all-dayday-night dramaThe largest hologramin the skyNo one ever asked me if I wanted to shareeverything____Jackie Clark is author of Aphoria (Brooklyn Arts Press). She is the series editor of Poets off Poetry and Song of the Week for Coldfront Magazine and is the recipient of a 2012 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming from Denver Quarterly, The Rumpus, and Yoga City. Jackie lives in Jersey City and can be found online at nohelpforthat.com.