Meditation on Desire with Agate and Aurora Borealis

PoetryIssue 36
Written by Alyssa Jewell

and I am unashamed of wanting

to touch anything that has been shown to me

in this life. I want to carve down

into the moss stone’s airy depths

Alyssa Jewell

Alyssa Jewell lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan where she is an assistant professor of English. Her work has appeared in Best New Poets, Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry Daily, Witness, and Denver Quarterly Review, among other publications. She edits poetry for Waxwing and coordinates the Poets in Print reading series at the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center.

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