strangers, objects | jessica tolbert

Jessica Tolbert’s work has previously appeared in DREGINALD, Devil’s Lake, GlitterMOB, The Collagist, and elsewhere. "Strangers, Objects" is her first chapbook. She currently lives in Philadelphia where she is an MSW candidate at the University of Pennsylvania.    PlacidThis makes conversational senseEarl’s cross country killing spreetwo stepping on Molly in a cowboy bara biochemist and her black mold experimentunder her sink nearly killed hersweat on my back like a layer of frostan inundation of true crimewhen she walked toward the truck cab parked he came to himselfI anticipated images of black zip tiesgrateful for sleep like a horse run through mountains and desertsweet rot saint of ativan and soapy smoke collapsing from the brainstem in and grasp me by my jaw like a hound