This selection is from Jenny Morse’s poem “Speaking to You,” in which the speaker addresses a beloved in order to face the frustrations and challenges the speaker feels and deals with as the beloved dies or as the speaker contemplates the beloved’s death. These sections move through the scenes of identification, guilt, anger, awareness, bargaining, death. some of the other 49 sections have appeared at short, fast, and deadly and Xenith. Jenny’s poem Neruda’s Neighbor appeared here in August 2012.

from “Speaking to You”
By Jenny Morse