Jessica Bozek received an MFA from the University of Georgia and an MA from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London. She is the author of cor·re·spond·ence (dusi/e-chap kollektiv), a collaboration with Eli Queen. She has lived in Russia, England, Spain, and Costa Rica but currently walks the dog in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Bodyfeel Lexicon was published by Switchback Books, 2009.
The Stationer's Transport
through panes and across sheets, perception yields
here, in the margins, my body-ghosts happen
on the savanna no new-season snow
I repeat your name and follow horizontals
distracted hands make sludge of a self
as rough rounds corkscrew the sky
the grounds of my love—sweat-peel, tragus-ring smatter, cuticalia—
air-lit by the replica moons of a three-hole punch
The Geometry Transport
Training for a transport
of turns and time-skew
should include pre-notes,
practiced angles. Traveling
songs to bloom correspond-
dence: I sine you, you
circumscribe me. Let
the tools of our Hyphen War
be: quadruped-smell,
hand-breath. Long on
the ground, late at
the gorge. Tooth-lit.
Leanings aren't weight-
loss biscuits, nor tendencies;
they are vulnerabilities.
I left leaning
against your half-
walls--something
to remember me down.
Geometry stutters, un-
leads its mechanical pencils,
stubs to eraser-casing.
Who slopes along
inscribes a slant for sniff.