Jenna Cardinale writes poems. Some of them appear in Reality Beach, Pith, Verse Daily, and H_NGM_N. She lives in the county of Kings in New York.
Armstrong
A first church. Stumptown,
then neon new growth.
Look small. Isn’t this
the oldest thing. The fire
only chars the inside. Then
an intermittent stream.
But which tree
is named for me.
These regular lizards remain
unconcerned by our big feelings.