Jessica Roeder was born in Chicago. She has published stories, poems, and essays, and her fiction has earned her a Pushcart Prize and a Loft-McKnight Award in Creative Prose. Roeder lives in Duluth, Minnesota, and teaches writing and modern dance.

Five Poems

by Jessica Roeder

Letters

1.
I came to
sea level
into the very shape of the young moon
gravity gravely apportioned
well-wishers
big dark shadow—a bona fide grace

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