What balance of bend
and backbone? What measure
resilience moulds malleable’s molecules
such that its structure’s rearranged?
Whites
whipped to a froth with peaks
are perky till two beats too many: then
the mixture droops, begins to weep.
But basket-
weaving 101 needs initially wet
Jill Jorgenson is a Toronto writer and artist who spends her days delivering the mail. Her poetry and artwork have appeared in Descant, The New Quarterly, Arc and CV2. Cormorant Books will launch her first collection of poems, Looking East Over My Shoulder, in the spring of 2014.
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