Jeanine Walker is a poet who for three years also published a daily comic strip called “Getting to Know the Tulip.” She received an MA in creative writing from Hollins University in Virginia and a PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Houston. Walker is a recipient of the Academy of American Poets/Brazos Bookstore prize and works as the Writers in the Schools program manager at Seattle Arts & Lectures.

Two Poems

by Jeanine Walker

Recovery & Surrender

And God was in the morning God was.

Speak to me with your mouth closed

      the hands are speaking something doing fire and lines.

The next thing was the refinement of the other:

      a man tied mouth and tongue to a mute metal chair.

The kitchen around the corner yellow Formica

      stepping inside there I could see my own painted toes.

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