“Sometimes death
takes you by the throat, like burning leaves choke
and ochre light hangs thick as draperies across your living
room window where a slice of sky slips through
to remind you get outside, take a walk, breathe.“
Enjoy this audio recording of “Peccadilloes” and “Missing Sleep” by Jane Ann Fuller from Vol. 34:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy your copy here!
Jane Ann Devol Fuller is a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and a recipient of the James Boatwright II Poetry Prize. Her manuscript Half-Life (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2021) was a finalist for the National Indie Excellence Awards. The collaboration Revenants: A Story of Many Lives was made possible with a grant from the Ohio Arts Council. Work appears in Verse Daily, Shenandoah, Main Street Rag, One Art, Blue Earth Review, Anti-Heroine Chic, BODY, The Ekphrastic Review, I Though I Heard A Cardinal Sing, On The Seawall, and elsewhere.