8/1/2023 Poetry by Jennifer Manske FenskeCarl Wycoff CC
Set Free at Modern Cherry Motors we dreamed of that Bronco was gonna buy it and climb up in those cracked seats how would it feel it would feel like freedom you said high school a place where we have to show up afterwards we’ll finally be together together like in a trailer? nah an apartment you said i got a job putting peaches in baskets work is hot, lots of hours these dreams are in my head when you stop by i can’t remember the things you said True Confessions at Bucket Stitch Automotive Interiors this one, right here broke my heart real bad eight years, maybe nine gave him all a woman can give and still he busted me up – and good, too stitching takes time all mastery and patience my man spread leather out on the bench with scissors his grandaddy owned metal and blade cut the leather like some kind of soft ripping no one could barely hear we had rows like you wouldn’t believe those hands of his well he never raised them to me i outweighed him easy he’s no fool some things were sweet we tended strawberries in spring a patch out behind the old house rabbits made short work we covered the rows i pulled, he cut the fabric sharp metal slicing through i remember the fruit and the man when we lifted the covers they floated down like summer snow for a moment it was all right, just him and me Jennifer Manske Fenske is the author of two novels published by Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press. Her poems have appeared in Atlanta Review, Ice Floe Press and Emrys Journal. Her essays have been published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Arizona Republic, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and the Lutheran. Jennifer is the recipient of a 2022 Artist Project Support Grant in poetry from the Metropolitan Arts Council (Greenville, S.C.). She lives in Simpsonville, S.C., with her husband, children's book author and illustrator Jonathan Fenske, and their three daughters. Comments are closed.
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