A Grammar
She passed. Passed on. Passed over. She’s past. She is in the past now. In other words she is not here. But these lilacs shivering in a spring profusion: Her and her and her. I bury my face in them. Appears in asterisk (Bull City Press, 2023)
Jenny George is the author of After Image (Copper Canyon Press, 2024) and The Dream of Reason (Copper Canyon Press, 2018). Her poems have appeared in the New York Times, Poetry, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Narrative, Granta, Iowa Review, Orion, Los Angeles Review of Books, Poem-A-Day at poets.org, and elsewhere. Jenny lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she works in social justice philanthropy.
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