Jesse Rice-Evans is a queer poet from North Carolina. Her first full-length poetry collection, The Uninhabitable, is forthcoming from Sibling Rivalry Press in 2019. Read her work in The Wanderer, Dream Pop, Monstering, and Agape, among others, and in the chapbooks Soft Switch (Damaged Goods Press, 2016) and HONOR // SHAME (forthcoming from Gap Riot Press). She’s a doctoral student in composition and rhetoric at the CUNY Graduate Center. Find her watching Grey’s Anatomy with her heating pad and @riceevans
from NOON:
an aurora: somewhere a whole Self and become slick
the slow moan of a glacier are my moods, my
crushing glacier of moods, of how I shard
my floes, my fatigue the moment an iceberg is born
my meltwater: hydrocodone