Jessica Elsaesser
Jessica Rae Elsaesser is a poet whose recent works have been included in Tagvverk, Salutations by RVNG Intl., Completely and Without Pause - Feminist Notes on Oppression and Expansion, Thou Who Holds but Owns Not by TLTRPreß, Looking for you by Du-Good Press, and DAISYWORLD MAGAZINE #2. Early work has been included in the Center for Book Arts Broadside Poetry Series, Anthology of Young Poetry of the U.S.A., and The Esopus Reader. They co-founded A Wrecked Tangle Press, publishing small edition artist’s books from 2008-2018. Their current self-publishing project, Place of the Linden, collaborates with the work of Lindsey Ann Elsaesser.
hatched blastocyst
gone all mulberry
a new wariness
of dissolutes
our thickening summons
amongst the drought
burning fire edges
and parasitiformes
we initiate our
signal cascade
crosstalk membranes
grown internal
waters tonic of
consonant intervals
promises made
far from home
juices masticated
from the root
synthetic blue
water lost
condensation
reaction
aniline and acid
associated oxygen
toxic irritants
go back enough
and hit crude oil
how many
permutations
to the name
brilliant lake
raspberries in
summer
celluloid frame rate
dematerialized
flattened images
roll over us
our stretched
thin corneas
amino acids
extracted attention
singing head back
audio repeats
in our neurons
one who is many
we know the words
know the feeling
ecotone dwelling
transitions micro
climate politics
tick parasitism
clung to flat
and unblooded
target lesions
a circling impact
your face looks
familiar like
we worshipped
together some
millions of
people away
mouthparts
shaping a different
kind of fullness
chimeric
exchanges
multiparous
graft and host
every memory
allogeneic
circulated through
telling or transplant
confused sugars
a story bound to
for decades
disappeared
at once
what you
gave us what
we left you