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Jenny Johnson

Jenny Johnson is an M.F.A. candidate at Warren Wilson College. Her poem “Ladies’ Arm Wrestling Match at the Blue Moon Diner” appeared in the anthology Best New Poets 2008. She currently resides in Pittsburgh, PA.

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Levee, 1955

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Pin it down, panel atop panel with / care, stained persimmon fabric, sheer linen, / a square green bandage, paisley knee-patch, tie- / length…

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A Pysanka for My Mother’s Poetry Book

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It kept the table steady, her marbled / notebook filled with poems. / The pages go blank a few months / after I was born, when the uneven / dining…

Lloyd as Quasimodo

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You possess a loneliness / that seems to fight for itself, Lloyd, / like some old dog running to the woods / a too cold winter night and all …

Send the Bodies Home

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We drove by a Baptist church with a sign out front: W lcome home from Iraq Scotty Pate. The rest of the town seemed ill-conceived, all pawnshop and…

Shooting Below the School Building

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Holy is the muzzle-flash, the blood-speck / on my thumb’s knuckle where my hand met / / the gun’s recoil above hoof and paw prints / tracing…

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