now I remember the tangled clothes, piled on your studio table, blue jeans and flannel shirts you once loved ripped into strips, and how I left the remnants untouched, closed the door so not to see. how I convinced myself your hands smelled of turpentine even when you could no longer paint, when every wall […]
Jennifer Mills Kerr
Jennifer Mills Kerr lives in Northern California. Her poetry has been recently published in January House, Neologism, & the Inflectionist Review. She leads art-inspired writing workshops online and curates poems on the Poetry-Inspired substack (@JenniferMillsKerr). Read more of her published poetry at www.JenniferMillsKerrPoet.com.