• Poetry

    Two Poems by Jessica Goodfellow

    Glass Piano
    Alexandria of Bavaria,
    believing she’d swallowed a glass piano,
    moved carefully through the world,
    even in doorways turning sideways
    so as not to shatter it.
    My father, my neighbor, crabwalk
    through the world in whatever way they must
    so as not to pierce the things they believe
    inside themselves. Perhaps I do it too—
    it’s hard to see in a glassless mirror
    of cloudy steel plate screwed to cinder
    block wall,