Kristina Jipson / Lock, Means

 Kristina Jipson's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Agni, American Letters & Commentary, At Length, Chicago Review, Colorado Review, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, "How Void of Miracles," was released from Hand Held Editions in 2009. from Lock, Means we learned we could make something there by saying it wasn’t. I don’t know what changed, she said—our winter collapsed into a series of single instants punctuated by a white stripe drawn from the sky to our fingers thrown out against the wind. And here, that same white between the birches eclipses the subject, which must be us. What we meant was, pay attention to us. In the same way I want to say something about what it’s like in this corner and how I want it otherwise. Or that this means getting farther from how it happened. We posed with our arms touching exactly in the center of the frame as if we didn’t know the light would leak there. She said we were safe, but the boat beat hard against the green between the canyon