about the author
Jessie Janeshek’s first book of poems is Invisible Mink (Iris Press, 2010). An Assistant Professor of English and the Director of Writing at
Bethany College, she holds a PhD from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and an MFA from Emerson College. She co-edited the literary anthology Outscape: Writings on Fences and Frontiers (KWG Press, 2008).
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Vodka Song/Volga Boatgirl
Jessie Janeshek
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And don’t you know yourself best
when you’re this close to death
all day lost in the loft smelling purple as sex.
Japheth, vulpine, rad red Tantalus
offers you chocolate nails horseshoes and cards
a castle of claws antlers that crackle
and nothing to drink on the foam mattress
but Pine Sol. You knock it aside
call it a wash sob for an hourglass.