Jessica Barksdale
Jessica Barksdale's second poetry collection Grim Honey was published in April 2021. A Vancouver, WA resident, she teaches online for UCLA Extension and in the MFA program for Southern New Hampshire University.
A poem by Jessica Barksdale
Three daughters, two parents. Five at dinner. A round of white plates on the wooden table. Minus one parent equals four, and yet, each night, the habit of five forks. Finally, we get it, four, and then, minus one daughter equals three, though we grow up, that table no longer set. When the remaining parent […]
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