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Jennifer Reeser

is the author of  two full-length poetry collections, An Alabaster Flask, winner of the Word Press First Book Prize, and Winterproof and also the author of the cycle Sonnets from the Dark Lady.

Her poems, essays, and translations of Russian and French literature appear internationally in such journals as Poetry, Salt, The Formalist, and The Dark Horse.

Jennifer has given lectures, readings and seminars at the high school and junior high levels, as well as on college campuses and community venues from New York City to the U.S. Gulf Coast. She is the mother of five and lives in southern Louisiana.


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Betrayed Political Spouse
Comments Silently at the Press Conference,
Post-Scandal

Playing the part as well as I know how
of partner in his shame, do you not think
my eyes shine, in their pansy-purple ink
against my pale, French Foreign Legion brow?
Do I not win you, as the gute frau?
So long as it provides a painted drink
for me in priceless chambers . . . I’ll wear pink
before the judge and jury—pad, meow.

Not in a harrowed heart resides the ache,
but in my head—where it has always risen
at his enticements to euphoria.
Duplicitous? It’s what a man can make
arousing me to this elected prison.
The make-up’s moot. Weep not, Peoria.



 
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