RESIDENT ROOM #243
Her stroke-impaired tongue
feels for cheek wells in the dark.
German:
Ukranian:
Russian:
Mandarin:
Chinese: He speaks eight languages
Japanese: but clicks at her foreign
French and
English:
Slur
(the tap of old stingers and shelled abdomens).
His ears filled with
the sound of her kneeling.
She is mantis.
Her bone-prayer wrists
raised in bent defense.
RESIDENT ROOM # 216
Her yellow horse painting
No eyes
says it all.
Rear legs too short,
Raised by father
more like a hyena
on the side lines,
He crossed the lines of
overbite yelping with eager
Her little girl panties, their elastic waistband
anticipation.
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Jackie Anne Morrill is a MFA graduate student of Sarah Lawrence College. She devotes her time thesis writing inspired by tales of sexual fetishism, pseudo-psychology and the feeding habits of forest animals. Hailing from Worcester, Massachusetts, Jackie has become a strong and welcomed voice in the Worcester poetry scene over the past few years. Her work can be seen in New Graffiti: Literature on the Streets, The Ballard Street Poetry Journal, and Amethyst Arsenic.
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