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    • Staff
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    • Issue 5 >
      • Letter from the Editors
      • Stephanie Bryant Anderson & Andrea Spofford
      • Mary Kovaleski Byrnes
      • Rob Carney
      • William Fargason
      • Raye Hendrix
      • Jude Marr
      • Iliana Rocha
      • Gale Marie Thompson
      • Derek JG Williams
      • Emily Paige Wilson
      • "Why do you love poetry?"
    • Issue 4 >
      • Letter from the Editors
      • Emma Bolden
      • Jess Feldman
      • Maggie Graber
      • Emily Lake Hansen
      • Sonja Johanson
      • Kelsey Ann Kerr
      • Josh Myers
      • Christina Olson
      • Ashley Roach-Freiman
      • Ephraim Scott Sommers
      • Interview with P. Scott Cunningham
    • Issue 3 >
      • Letter from the Editors
      • Anne Champion
      • Jeremy Hawkins
      • Matthew Henriksen
      • Ashley Mares
      • Emmet Martin Penney
      • Liz Robbins
      • Anna Sandy
      • Terell Jamal Terry
      • Dillon J. Welch
      • Jacqui Zeng
      • Interview with Erin Belieu
    • Issue 2 >
      • Letter From the Editors
      • Brandon Amico
      • Ruth Awad
      • Rosebud Ben-Oni
      • Caroline Cabrera
      • Dorothy Chan
      • Adam Crittenden
      • Megan Leonard
      • Paige Lewis
      • Nathan Parker
      • Meghan Privitello
      • Interview with Kaveh Akbar
    • Teaser II >
      • Letter from the Editors
      • Monica Prince
    • Issue 1 >
      • Letter From the Editors
      • Dan Albergotti
      • Adam Clay
      • Heather Derr-Smith
      • Meg Freitag
      • James Kimbrell
      • Madison McCartha
      • David Thacker
      • Julie Marie Wade
      • Maggie Woodward
      • Ashley Roach-Freiman
      • Jessica Plante
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      • Adam Clay
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Jess Feldman


WORST-CASE SCENARIO
 
​
We live    life in debt   Hope of
relief   grants you courage   to suffer
Proust said that   on the backs of
grumbling help   ​he didn’t know
to name   in prayers    Angels maybe
don’t come back   once we recognize them
Escape    yet impermanent    I vanish 
on lunch break    into a home furnishing store 
into bedlinens   into pillows    I can’t afford 
No name for me    except    Woman
By The Flannel Duvet Covers
What is the divine right of the soul 
if not to disappear    Slowly     at first 
Like a dog no longer puppy 
How those kids loved her
all summer    Come December 
see her slink    edge of yard 
a chain run thru brown grass
Thin sound      Ascending 

Jess Feldman's poetry has appeared in Sixth Finch, Radar Poetry, Bennington Review, and diode. Her manuscript 'Call It A Premonition' was chosen by Zachary Schomburg as winner of the 2015 BOAAT Winter Chapbook Competition. Jess is co-curator of Broken Bells, a monthly reading series in Brooklyn, NY. 
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