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Joni Lee



Joni Lee Joni Lee’s poems have appeared in PMS: Poemmemoirstory, Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, Juked, H_NGM_N, and elsewhere. She is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer and lives in Denver, Colorado, with her husband and fellow poet, Haines Eason.

Recent Work
Cushioned by a Wave
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Water filled the house / when she died. Cardinals cooed to her / through glass while the basement drowned. / I swear her face blurred, / her head…
The Farm Floats, It Disappears
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25,000 black-eyed Susans bloomed every summer / on the farm, but now the yard hoards / a Ford pick-up, a kitchen stove, and grandmother // is dead....
Late Summer, Missouri
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Blotted with blue veins, grandma’s arms prop her head / up at the oak table. Grandpa plays “Amazing Grace” / in his underwear, his hands slender…
We Are All Drowsy
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It’s difficult to sleep when desks / keep bumping into my dreams. / How long before students’ voices // stop bouncing off my forehead? / Their…
Against the Fear of Drowning
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Best of all is to not hold on while gazing / at the water. It heaves, it swells into / the dock and would carry me over / the threshold. It’s…
Mapping
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He and I mapped our failings, fingers tracing / where we threw our belongings / off the balcony. There’s the spot / / I cried along the…
When All Else Fails
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There is always something in my way– / the memory of my mother and father talking / to the television, weather that traps me / / inside and…
Jagged Daisies
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The blue dress sobbed / above yellow skin. / / Even my panties rubbed / wrong. Vases of daffodils / / with their flimsy voice of / stay…
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