Rah-Rah Nostalgia | Jessie Janeshek

 Jessie Janeshek's chapbooks are Spanish Donkey/Pear of Anguish (Grey Book Press, 2016) and Hardscape (Reality Beach, forthcoming, 2017). Her full-length collection of poems is Invisible Mink (Iris Press, 2010). An Assistant Professor of English and the Director of Writing at Bethany College, she holds a Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and an M.F.A. from Emerson College. She co-edited the literary anthology Outscape: Writings on Fences and Frontiers (KWG Press, 2008). You can read more of her poetry at jessiejaneshek.net.       We Stare at Your Propped-up Corpse and Not the CameraWe’re a broadish yellow culthandcrafted in bikinisred Eva Joia sweatshirts.We clean carry in foul weatherget our fevers on the lightbulblose all tit sensationfrom imaginative sadnessand half-eaten Dairy Queen.We sleep at the bear’s dento gain proof of your hauntingout of whack and watchingPeter Pan revenge pornobsessed with Jean Naté.We have too much Florida bloodto warm to lunar