Jessica Laser
Hindsight | Poetry
Jessica Laser
For D.P. Staring out over a field of bees and grasses, wildflowers and ticks, knowing it was no place to lie down, that we couldn’t lie down in it, something happened to me related to difficulty. Let me start from the beginning. We were difficult people arising from our mothers’ difficulties in a shrinking because globalizing economy that made us think we could be kings, if only we invested correctly,...
New History | Poetry
Jessica Laser
Maybe the worst thing about American Puritanism is the position it forces its opponents into. — Robert Hass 1. Jimmy, when we say sorry, is it I love you in disguise? Everyone does it, marries the Stranger, taboo to do it otherwise. When we say we don’t Understand, is it I could put my faith in you, Someone I don’t really know? Compared to us He was a Rabbi. One...
